delineated a vast number of nude figures larger than life, and in various attitudes; they are of good design and have been completed in so short a time that it is a very marvel. If then this artist has accomplished so much at so early an age, since he has not yet attained his thirtieth year, let every one judge for himself of what may be hoped from him in the course of a life.
The painter Paulino[1] is also a Veronese, he is nowin good repute at Venice; and this artist also, although in like manner not more than thirty years old, has performed many commendable works. Born in Verona, Paulino was the son of a carver in stone, or as they say in that country, a stonecutter, and having acquired the principles of painting from the Veronese, Giovanni Caroto,[2] he painted in fresco the Hall of the Paymaster Portesco at Tiene in the Vicentino, in company with the above-named Battista, with whom he subsequently executed numerous works at the Soranza, all of which show good design, a fine judgment, and a beautiful manner.[3]
At Masiera near Asolo in the territory of Treviso, Paulino painted the very beautiful house of the Signor Daniello Barbaro, Patriarch elect of Aquileia;[4] and in Verona he painted a large picture on cloth for the refectory of San Nazzaro, a Monastery of the Black Friars; the subject chosen being the Supper of Our Saviour Christ in the house of Simon the Leper,[5] when Mary Magdalene threw herself at the feet of Our Lord. In this work there are many por-
- ↑ This is the renowned Paolo, Cagliari or Caliari, better known as Paul Veronese. The author of the bitter remarks attributed to Agostino Carracci, reproaches Vasari for having said so little of this master, but the great abundance of good artists at that time in Verona renders it highly probable that Cagliari had not then been able to make it evident that he possessed the right to more distinction than has here and hereafter been accorded to him by Vasari, whose impartiality is manifest. See Zanetti, Della Pittura Veneziana, and Ridolti, Maraviglie dell’Arte. See also Lanzi, History of Painting, vol. ii. p. 206, 213.
- ↑ The brother of Giovanni Francesco Caroto, mentioned in the Life of Fra Giocondo, which will be found in vol. iii. p. 385.
- ↑ The removal of these works has been already alluded to. See ante, note ||, p. 437.
- ↑ This Palace is now in the possession of the Counts Manin, and is much visited by strangers.— Venetian Edition of Vasari.
- ↑ The Supper of Simon is no longer in the Monastery of San Nazzaro, which is now become a soap manufactory.—Ibid.
