end that he may bathe himself in their blood, as a cure for the leprosy wherewith he was afflicted.[1]
In the recess of the above-mentioned chapel are two other stories by Paolo Farinato, these also are large, although not of equal size with those previously named; in the first is Our Saviour Christ receiving Peter, who is walking towards him on the water, and in the second is the Supper which San Gregorio gives to certain poor men. In all these works, which are entirely worthy of praise, there is a large number of figures executed with good design, much thought, and great diligence.[2] There is furthermore a picture of San Martino by the same artist, which was placed in the cathedral of Mantua, and which Farinato painted in competition with other painters his compatriots, as we have before related.
And this shall be the end of the life of the excellent Michele San Michele, and of those other distinguished men of Yerona, who are certainly worthy of all praise for their excellence in art as well as for their many other good qualities.
[born 1474—died 1549.]
Had men the foresight to consider well their position when fortune offers to them the opportunity of making themselves
- ↑ Many authorities are of opinion that the subject here described is not thatof the doubtful occurrence alluded to by our author.— Ed. Flor., 1832-8.
- ↑ These paintings also still remain.
- ↑ Rumohr, Italienische Forschungen, vol. ii. p. 385, et seq.} may be consulted with advantage in relation to the life of this painter. See also Della Valle, Sienese Edition of our author, and Tiraboschi, Storia della Litteratura Italiana, tomo ix. p. 193.
- ↑ That this, which has been considered a by-name, was indeed a family name of Razzi, appears to be sufficiently proved by inscriptions, which are quoted by Della Valle, Gave, and others: that on the picture of the Council House of Siena, for example, where Razzi signs himself, Io Antonius Sodona, &c.; with those cited by Gaye, Carteggio inedito, &c., among others, a letter from the Signoria of Siena, wherein the painter is addressed as Maestro Giovannantonio Sodone Pittore; and those from the Prince of Piombino, who in his letters to the Signoria, calls the master the Cavalier Sogdona.
