adorned the principal chapel of the Eremite monks of Sant’ Agostino, in Padua; with another chapel in the first cloister, also for those monks. He likewise painted a small chapel in the palace of Urbano Perfetto,[1] and the hall of the Roman Emperors, where the students go to dance in Carnival time, Vvms also painted by him. In the chapel of the Podesta, there are besides, events from the Old Testament painted in fresco by this master.[2]
Giusto,[3] who was also a Paduan painter, not only depicted various stories from the Old Testament in the chapel of San Giovanni Battista, which is beside the episcopal church, but also the whole series of events related in the Apocalypse of San Giovanni; and in the upper part of this work he represented Paradise, with numerous choirs of angels and other embellishments, executed with considerable ability and judgment.[4] In the church of Sant’ Antonio, this master painted the chapel of San Luca in fresco,[5] and in one of the chapels, in the church belonging to the Eremite monks of Sant’Agostino, he painted figures representing the liberal arts, with those of the virtues and the vices; and as he there celebrates various persons who have been renowned for their excellencies, so are there certain others, infamous for their
- ↑ Vasari should here say of the Capitanio, he is evidently writing from the letter of Campagnuola to Leonico Tomeo, where the magistrate is called Urhanus prmfectus.— See ante, life of Mantegna, p. 263, note (§).
- ↑ The chapels painted for the Augustine Monks were early injured bv restoration. One of the pictures from these was engraved by Novelli, and repeated by d’Agincourt. The remainder of the works here described can no longer be distinguished.— See Forster, Briefe aus Italien. Kunstblatt, 1838, No. 17; see also Ridolfi, Meraviglie dell'Arte, 8i.c., vol. vi.
- ↑ Giusto the son of Giovanni Menabuoi, a scholar of Giotto, is sometimes
called a Florentine, from having been born in Florence, sometimes a
Paduan, from having been admitted to the rights of citizenship in that city,
where he also died.— See Morelli, Notizia, &c., &c., p. 102, note. His
gravestone may be seen in the Baptistery, and bears the following inscription:—
Hic jacet Dominicus et Daniel fratres et filii (?) quondam magistri Justi pictoris qui fuit de Florencia, migravit ad Dominum die S. Michaelis Miiii. (1400), die xxviiii Septembris.Fürster, Briefe aus Italien. - ↑ These works have perished.— Ed. Flor., 1832-8.
- ↑ The pictures of this chapel were grievously injured by retouching or restoration in the year 1786.—Ibid.
