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For the church of San Domenico, Rondinello painted two pictures; one is to the left of the high altar, and exhibits Our Ladj, with numerous figures; the other is on a fa9ade of the church, and is very beautiful. In the church of San Niccolo, a monastery of the Augustinian Monks, this master painted a picture, with San Lorenzo and San Francesco, a work which was most highly commended, insomuch that it caused Rondinello to be held in the utmost esteem for the remainder of his life, not in Ravenna only but in ail Romagna.

The artist here in question lived to the age of sixty years, and was buried in San Francesco, at Ravenna. After him came Francesco da Codignuola, who was also greatly esteemed in that city, and painted numerous pictures there. On the high altar of the church which belongs to the Abbey of Classi, for example, there is one by his hand, of tolerably large size, representing the Raising of Lazarus, with many figures. Opposite to this work, in the year 1548, Giorgio Vasari painted another for Don Romualdo da Verona, the Abbot of that place. This represents the Deposition of Christ from the Cross, and has also a large number of figures. Francesco Codignuola painted a picture in San Niccola, likewise a very large one, the subject of which is the Birth of Christ, with two in San Sebastiano, exhibiting numerous figures.

For the Hospital of Santa Caterina, Francesco painted a picture with Our Lady, Santa Caterina, and many other figures; and in St. Agata he painted a figure of Our Saviour Christ on the Cross, the Madonna being at the foot thereof with a considerable number of other figures; this work also has received commendation. In the church of Sant’ Apollinare, in the same city, are three pictures by this artist, one at the high altar with Our Lady, San Giovanni Battista, Sant’ Apollinare, San Jeronimo, and other saints; in the second is also the Madonna with San Piero, and Santa Caterina; and in the third and last is Jesus Christ bearing his Cross, but this Francesco could not finish, having been overtaken by death before its completion.

Francesco coloured in a very pleasing manner, but had not