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Rh work there is an arm of the sea, a mountain, and part of a city, with a crowd of persons, the figures very small. Many other works of this artist might be enumerated, but it is sufficient to have mentioned this, which is the best. Nor did Bartolommeo, of Murano, acquit himself less creditably in the works executed by him, as may be seen among many other instances from the picture which he painted for the altar of San Luigi, in the church of San Giovanni e Polo (Paolo), and wherein he depicted San Luigi seated, and wearing ecclesiastical vestments. San Gregorio, San Bastiano (Sebastian), and San Domenico stand on one side of him. San Niccolo, San Girolamo, and San Rocco on the other: above these are half-length figures of other saints. The works of Giovanni Mansueti were also very carefully executed, and this artist took great pleasure in the imitation of natural objects, as figures and distant landscapes; he copied the manner of Gentile Bellini with tolerable exactitude, and painted many pictures in Venice. In the Scuola of San Marco, at the upper end of the audience-chamber,