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150 painted a picture for Jacopo Chedini, in the church of San Gicvanni-in-Monte; the subject of this work was Our Lady, accompanied by San Giovanni Evangelista, Sant’Agostino, and other saints; it was placed in a chapel within which Chedini proposed to be interred after his death. In the church of San Francesco he painted a picture of the Nativity, with St. James and St. Anthony of Padua; and, in the church of St. Piero he commenced the decoration of a most beautiful chapel for Domenico Garganelli, a noble and citizen of Bologna; but, whatever may have been the cause, he had but executed some few of the figures on the ceiling, when he left the work unfinished, or rather scarcely begun. In Mantua, besides the works executed for the Marquis, as mentioned above, Lorenzo Costa painted a picture of Our Lady in the church of St. Silvester; on one side of the Virgin is St. Silvester, who recommends the people of that city to her care; on the other are St. Sebastian, St. Paul, St. Elizabeth, and St. Jerome. From what I am told, it should appear that this picture was placed in the church of St. Silvester after the death of Costa, who, having finished his days in Mantua, where his descendants have remained ever since, desired to have a burial-place in that church for himself, and those who should follow after him. This