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Rh for the castles and villas without the city and for the neighbourhood around it. Among other places he worked at Boldeno, where he produced a picture on panel representing the Resurrection of Christ: he also painted the Refectory of Sant’ Andrea in fresco, and here he displayed exceedingly rich invention, with much power of fancy, the numerous figures of the work being intended to signify and set forth the connexion between the Old Testament and the New.

But since the works of this master are almost innumerable, so it shall suffice me to have mentioned such of them as are to be considered the best.

Girolamo da Carpi received his first instructions in painting from Benvenuto Garofalo, as will be related in his life, and together they depicted certain subjects in imitation of bronze, on the façade of the house of the Muzzarelli family, which is situate in the Borgo Nuovo. They also painted, in like manner together, both the interior and the outside of the palace of Copara, a place of recreation belonging to the Duke of Ferrara, for whom Benvenuto executed many other works, some alone, and some in the company of other painters.

Now Benvenuto had long lived in the determination to take no wife, but after he had lost the society of his brother, he became tired of living alone, and in the fortieth year of