[Footnote 21: _Drawn in the most perfect manner_, are the words of Vasari, while he adds, that the whole of his works were imitated and copied by Pietro di Perugia, an experienced artist in _fresco_, and more especially in miniature, with which "he ornamented the whole of the books in the library of Pope Pius," in the dome at Siena. He is not known, however, in Perugia, nor mentioned at Siena among those employed at the cathedral, as is noticed by Father della Valle; yet the present work abounds with examples of artists, unknown in their own cities, on account of having resided elsewhere; and the before mentioned annotator of Vasari was unable to discover the name of Liberal da Verona, an undoubted illustrator of the books, in such registers. I think we ought not to refuse to give credit, therefore, to Vasari, as Father Guglielmo insists; but to admit a new Pietro di Perugia, anterior to Vanucci, who might design the frescos of Stefano in Verona and Mantua, so extolled in the early part of 1400, and who copied them in those very beautiful and graceful miniatures at Siena; an art which he probably acquired at Verona, where it was then in such high repute.] [Footnote 22: See on this head, the _Descrizione delle Bellezze di Vicenza_, P. 1. p. 7.] [Footnote 23: In the cathedral of Pordenone, under one of his altarpieces, we read-- "Andreas Zeusis nostræque ætatis Apelles Hoc Bellunellus nobile pinxit opus." (_Altan._)] [Footnote 24: Ruggieri indeed had acquired a great reputation in Italy as early as 1449, when Ciriaco Anconitano, being in Ferrara, saw a picture of Christ taken from the cross, belonging to the Duke. He thus writes respecting the artist: _Rugerus Brugiensis pictorum decus_ AGATHÊI TUCHÊI.--_Rugierius in Brussella post præclarum illum Brugiensem picturæ decus Joannem, insignis N. T. Pictor habetur_, &c. See Colucci A. P. vol. xxiii. p. 143. He is also commended in high terms by Bartolommeo Facio in his little work _De viris illustribus_. See Morelli, _Notizia_, p. 239.] [Footnote 25: He arrived there, and was at Rome in the _anno Santo_. See Facius, lib. cit. p. 45.] [Footnote 26: This is one of the usual mistakes found in Vasari. Baldinucci (tom. iv. p. 17) calls him Ans or Hans. This is his Flemish appellation, which in our tongue, signifies Giovanni; and in the _Notizia_ Morelli he is termed Gianes da Brugia; somewhat nearer our own tongue. With Sansovino he is Gio. di Bruggia, John of Bruges. See Morelli, p. 117; and by him he is distinguished from _Gio. Van Eych_.]