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
Now, if we were to seek to make particular mention of the pictures that
Girolamo executed for many lords and gentlemen, the story would be
longer than is our desire, and I shall speak of two only, which are most
beautiful. From a picture by the hand of Correggio that the Chevalier
Baiardo has at Parma, beautiful to a marvel, in which Our Lady is
putting a shirt on the Infant Christ, Girolamo made a copy so like it
that it seems the very same picture, and he made another copy from one
by the hand of Parmigiano, which is in the cell of the Vicar in the
Certosa at Pavia, doing this so well and with such diligence, that there
is no miniature to be seen that is wrought with more subtlety; and he
executed innumerable others with great care. And since Girolamo
delighted in architecture, and also gave his attention to it, in
addition to many designs of buildings that he made for private persons,
he served in that art, in particular, Cardinal Ippolito of Ferrara, who,
having bought the garden at Monte Cavallo in Rome which had formerly
belonged to the Cardinal of Naples, with many vineyards belonging to
individuals around it, took Girolamo to Rome, to the end that he might
serve him not only in the buildings, but also in the truly regal
ornaments of woodwork in that garden. In this he acquitted himself so
well, that everyone was struck with astonishment; and, indeed, I know
not what other man could have done better than he did in executing in
woodwork--which has since been covered with most beautiful
verdure--works so fine and so pleasingly designed in various forms and
in different kinds of temples, in which there may now be seen arranged
the richest and most beautiful ancient statues that there are in Rome,
some whole and some restored by Valerio Cioli, a Florentine sculptor,
and by others.
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