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
Then follow four scenes above the cornice--namely, one over every wall.
In the first the Pope is blessing the galleys at Civita Vecchia, when
about to send them to Tunis in Barbary in the year 1535. In the next the
same Pope is excommunicating the King of England in the year 1537; with
the proper inscription. In the third is a fleet of galleys which the
Emperor and the Venetians fitted out against the Turk, with the
authority and assistance of the Pontiff, in the year 1538. In the
fourth, Perugia having rebelled against the Church, the people of that
city go to seek pardon in the year 1540. On the walls of the same little
hall are four large scenes, one to each wall, with windows and doors
between. In the first large scene the Emperor Charles V, having returned
victorious from Tunis, is kissing the feet of Pope Paul, of the Farnese
family, in Rome, in the year 1535. In the next, which is above the door
on the left hand, is the story of the peace that Pope Paul III brought
about at Busseto between the Emperor Charles V and Francis I of France,
in the year 1538; in which scene are these portraits--the elder Bourbon,
King Francis, King Henry, the elder Lorenzo, Tournon, the younger
Lorenzo, the younger Bourbon, and two sons of King Francis. In the third
the same Pope is making Cardinal di Monte his Legate at the Council of
Trent; and there are innumerable portraits. In the last, which is
between two windows, the same Pontiff is creating many Cardinals in
preparation for the Council, among whom there are four who became Popes
in succession after him--Julius III, Marcello Cervini, Paul IV, and Pius
IV. To put it briefly, this little hall is very richly adorned with all
that is required in such a place.
In the first chamber next to the little hall, which is dedicated to
Dress, and likewise richly wrought in stucco and gold, there is in the
centre a Sacrifice, with three nude figures, among which is an armed
figure of Alexander the Great, who is casting some garments of skin upon
the fire; and in many other scenes that are in the same place, one sees
how men discovered the way to make garments from plants and other wild
products; but it would take too long to seek to describe the whole in
full. From this chamber one enters into a second, dedicated to Sleep,
for which, when Taddeo had to paint it, he received the inventions given
below from the Commendatore Annibale Caro, at the commission of the
Cardinal; and, to the end that the whole may be the better understood,
we shall write here the advice of Caro in his own words, which are
these--
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