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Rh meritorious; and in the Ducal Palace he decorated several apartments, in company with a brother of his called Battista, but these two, although they thus worked together by command of the Duke, were nevertheless always the enemies of each other. They painted the history of Hercules in chiaroscuro, around the court of the above-named palace, covering the walls with a vast number of nude figures. Pictures innumerable, whether on panel or in fresco, were also painted by these artists, for all Ferrara. There is a painting by them in the Cathedral of Modena; and at Trent they executed numerous works in the Palace of the Cardinal, but these last they painted in company with other painters. At that time, the painter and architect, Girolamo Genga, was preparing various decorations in the Palace of the Imperiale, above Pesaro, for Francesco Maria, Duke of Urbino, as will be related in its proper place; and among the many painters who were invited thither by command of the above-named Francesco Maria, were the Ferrarese Dosso and Battista, who were employed principally to delineate landscapes, other paintings of various kinds having long before been executed in that palace by Francesco di Mirozzo of Forli, Eaffaello dal Colle, of the Borgo-a -San Sepolcro, and many others.

Having arrived at the Imperiale, Dosso and Battista, as is the custom with artists of their sort, began to censure and