Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 08 (of 10): Bastiano to Taddeo ZuccheroVasari, Giorgio
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Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 08 (of 10): Bastiano to Taddeo Zucchero
Vasari, Giorgio
Art, Italian; Artists -- Italy -- Biography
After that chapel, Cardinal Alessandro Farnese caused him to execute in
a room in his Palace--namely, at the corner, under one of those very
rich ceilings made under the direction of Maestro Antonio da San Gallo
for three large chambers that are in a line--a very beautiful frieze in
painting, with a scene full of figures on each wall, the scenes being a
very beautiful triumph of Bacchus, a Hunt, and others of that kind.
These much pleased the Cardinal, who caused him to paint, in addition,
in several parts of that frieze, the Unicorn in various forms in the lap
of a Virgin, which is the device of that most illustrious family. Which
work was the reason that that lord, who has ever been the friend of all
talented and distinguished men, always favoured him, and even more would
he have done it, if Daniello had not been so dilatory over his work; but
for that Daniello was not to blame, seeing that such was his nature and
genius, and he was content to do little well rather than much not so
well. Now, in addition to the affection that the Cardinal bore him,
Signor Annibale Caro worked on his behalf in such a manner with his
patrons, the Farnesi, that they always assisted him. And for Madama
Margherita of Austria, the daughter of Charles V, he painted in eight
spaces in the study of which mention has been made in the Life of
Indaco, in the Palace of the Medici on the Piazza Navona, eight little
stories of the actions and illustrious deeds of the above-named Emperor
Charles V, with such diligence and excellence, that it would be almost
impossible to do better in that kind of work.
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