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Rh When these works were made known to the king, they pleased him so greatly that he became most favourably disposed towards Rosso, and no long time had elapsed before his Majesty presented the painter with a Canonicate in the Holy Chapel of the Madonna of Paris, with other revenues and marks of kindness, insomuch that Rosso lived in the fashion of a nobleman with a large number of servants and horses, giving fine banquets, and showing all manner of courtesies to his friends and acquaintance, but more especially to the Italian strangers who chanced to arrive there.

After the completion of these works. Rosso adorned another hall which is called the Pavilion, because it is in the form of a tent, and is over the apartments of the first floor, being above all the others composing that part of the building. In this apartment Rosso lavished a profusion of rich and varied ornaments in stucco from the floor even to the summit, figures in full relief namely, placed at equal distances, with children, festoons, and various kinds of animals. In the different compartments of the walls, also, are seated figures in fresco, and that in such vast numbers that all the gods and goddesses of the old Gentiles may there