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318 time, to be one of extraordinary excellence. In the church of San Marco, also in Rome, he painted an historical piece, beside the chapel of the Sacrament, representing two martyrs: this is accounted among the good works executed by Pietro while in Rome. For Sciarra Colonna he painted a Loggia with several chambers, in the Palace of Sant’ Apostolo; and all these works placed him in possession of a very large sum of money; Pietro, therefore, determined to remain no longer in Rome, and departed thence with the good favour of all the court. He then returned to his native city of Perugia, and there executed various frescoes and pictures in different parts of the city, more particularly in the palace of the Signori, where he painted a picture in oil, for the chapel of that building, representing the Virgin, with other saints.

In the church of San Francesco-del-Monte, Pietro painted two chapels in fresco, the Adoration of the Magi in one, and in the other the Martyrdom of certain Monks of the Franciscan order, who, having proceeded to the Sultan of Babylon, were there put to death. In San Francesco del Convento, this master painted two pictures in oil, in one of which he depicted the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and in the other San Giovanni Batista, with other saints. For the church of the Servites also, Pietro likewise painted two pictures, one