ANTONIO DA SAN GALLO (THE YOUNGER) (WITH MICHELAGNOLO BUONARROTI) Palazzo Farnese Rome 138 GIULIO ROMANO Detail: The Battle of Constantine Rome: The Vatican 146 GIULIO ROMANO The Marriage Banquet of Cupid and Psyche Mantua: Palazzo del Te 154 GIULIO ROMANO The Destruction of the Giants by the Thunderbolts of Jove Mantua: Palazzo del Te, Sala dei Giganti 160 FRA SEBASTIANO VINIZIANO DEL PIOMBO The Flagellation Rome: S. Pietro in Montorio 176 FRA SEBASTIANO VINIZIANO DEL PIOMBO Andrea Doria Rome: Palazzo Doria 182 PERINO DEL VAGA The Passage of the Red Sea Rome: The Vatican, Loggia 192 FRA GIOCONDO, LIBERALE, AND OTHER CRAFTSMEN OF VERONA LIVES OF FRA GIOCONDO, LIBERALE, AND OTHER CRAFTSMEN OF VERONA If writers of history were to live a few years longer than the number commonly granted as the span of human life, I, for my part, have no manner of doubt that they would have something to add to the accounts of the past previously written by them, for the reason that, even as it is not possible for a single man, be he ever so diligent, to learn the exact truth in a flash, or to discover all the details of his subject in the little time at his command, so it is as clear as the light of day that Time, who is said to be the father of truth, is always revealing new things every day to the seeker after knowledge. If, many years ago, when I first wrote and also published these Lives of the Painters and other Craftsmen, I had possessed that full information which I have since received concerning Fra Giocondo of Verona, a man of rare parts and a master of all the most noble faculties, I would without a doubt have made that honourable record of him which I am now about to make for the benefit of craftsmen, or rather, of the world; and not of him only, but also of many other masters of Verona, who have been truly excellent. And let no one marvel that I place them all under the image of one only, because, not having been able to obtain portraits of them all, I am forced to do this; but, so far as in me lies, not one of them shall thereby have his excellence defrauded of its due.