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master made the most frequent use, was Girolamo Siciolante of Sermoneta, of whom we shall speak further in due season.^[1] Another disciple of Perino was the Mantuan Marcello,^[2] as we have before remarked; he painted a figure of the Virgin in fresco, with numerous Saints, from the designs and under the direction of Perino, at the entrance to the castle of Sant’ Angelo, a very good and beautiful work; but of the labours of this artist also, we shall make further mention in another place.

Perino left many designs at his death, partly by his own hand, and partly by that of others; among the latter were all the drawings from the chapel by Michelagnolo, which had been made by Leonardo Cungi,^[3] of the Borgo a San Sepolcro, and which was indeed a most excellent work. All these last mentioned designs, with many other things of various kinds, were sold by his heirs; and we have many drawings made with the pen by his hand, in our book, which are very fine.

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THE SIENESE, DOMENICO BECCAFUMI, PAINTER AND MASTER OF CASTINGS IN METAL.

[born 1479—died 1549.]

The same quality that we have already described as the pure gift of nature in Giotto and some others among the painters of whom we have been hitherto discoursing, was again perceived to manifest itself in the case of the Sienese painter, Domenico Beccafumi, seeing that while engaged in keeping a few sheep for Pacio his father^[4] who was a labourer of the Sienese citizen Lorenzo Beccafumi, he was frequently

1. In the lives of the artists who were living when Vasari wrote, and which will be given in vol. v. of the present work.
2. Marcello Vennsti, who made a copy of the Last Judgment under the direction of Michael Angelo himself. It was a beautiful production, and passed from the Cardinal Famese, to whom it was presented by Michael Angelo, into the possession of the King of Naples.— Bottari.
3. Of this artist further mention is made in the life of Taddeo Zucchero. In the Abbecedacio Pittorico he is called Leonardo Cugini.
4. Della Valle tells us that the father of Domenico, a native of Ancajano, in the Sienese territory, had himself received the rights of citizenship in Siena, for his distinction as an artist.