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
On the other head-wall, opposite to that already described, are likewise
two other scenes, with the oval in the centre, in which is the portrait
of King Henry of France, with this inscription:
HENRICO FRANCORUM REGI MAX. FAMILIAE FARNESIAE CONSERVATORI.
In one of the scenes (namely, in that which is on the right hand) Pope
Paul III is investing Duke Orazio, who is kneeling, with a priestly
robe, and making him Prefect of Rome, with Duke Pier Luigi close at
hand, and other lords around; and with these words:
PAULUS III P.M. HORATIUM FARNESIUM NEPOTEM, SUMMAE SPEI
ADOLESCENTEM, PRAEFECTUM URBIS CREAT, ANNO SAL. 1549.
And in this scene are portraits of the Cardinal of Paris, Viseo, Morone,
Badia, Trento, Sfondrato, and Ardinghelli. In the other scene, beside
the last-named, the same Pope is giving the General's baton to Pier
Luigi and his sons, who were not yet Cardinals; with portraits of the
Pope, Pier Luigi Farnese, the Camarlingo, Duke Ottavio, Orazio, the
Cardinal of Capua, Simonetta, Jacobaccio, San Jacopo, Ferrara, Signor
Ranuccio Farnese as a young man, Giovio, Molza, Marcello Cervini, who
afterwards became Pope, the Marquis of Marignano, Signor Giovan Battista
Castaldo, Signor Alessandro Vitelli, and Signor Giovan Battista
Savelli.
Coming now to the little hall which is beside the hall just described,
and which is above the Hall of Spring, in the vaulting, which is adorned
with a vast and rich decoration in stucco and gold, in the recess in the
centre, there is the Coronation of Pope Paul III, with four spaces that
form a cruciform inscription, with these words:
PAULUS III FARNESIUS, PONTIFEX MAXIMUS, DEO ET HOMINIBUS
APPROBANTIBUS, SACRA TIARA SOLEMNI RITU CORONATUR, ANNO SALUTIS
1534, III NON. NOVEMB.
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