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About the same period, the most excellent sculptor Antonio da Carrara was working in Palermo, where he executed three statues for the Duke of Montelione, one of the Neapolitan family of Pignattella, and viceroy of Sicily. These figures all represented Our Lady in various attitudes and with certain differences of manner; they were placed on three altars in the cathedral of Montelione in Calabria. Antonio likewise executed several historical scenes for the same noble, and these are still remaining in Palermo. He left a son, who is now also a sculptor, and is no less excellent than was his father.

PIaving written the life of Andrea of Fiesole, I am next to set forth those of two excellent painters, Yincenzio of San Gimignano in Tuscany namely, and Timoteo of Urbino. I will therefore first speak of Vincenzio, since it is the portrait of this artist which stands above. But I propose to mention Timoteo immediately after because they were close contemporaries while both were disciples and friends of Raphael da Urbino.

Vincenzio, then, who laboured in the Papal Loggie for the graceful Raphael in company with many artists, acquitted himself in such a manner that he was commended by Raphael himself as well as by all besides. He therefore received a commission to paint a façade in terretta which is opposite to the palace of Messer Giovanni Battista dell’ Aquila, and there to his great credit he executed a frieze, wherein he delineated the Nine Muses with Apollo in the centre, above these figures are lions, as being the device of the Pontifi' then occupying the seat of St. Peter, and which are held to be most beautiful.