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Rh the monks of Monte Oliveto, Giovanni Pedoni, who has produced numerous works in Cremona and Brescia, was likewise a native of the former city; among his productions, those now in the house of the Signor Eliseo Raimondo are particularly to be mentioned, as being very beautiful and praiseworthy.

In Brescia likewise there have been and still are persons who have proved themselves most excellent in works or design; among others Jeronimo Romanino, who has produced a vast number of paintings in that city. The picture of the High Altar in the Church of San Francesco, which is a tolerably creditable work, is by the hand of this master, as are likewise the small folding doors which close in the altarpiece; these are painted in tempera both within and without; another picture in the same church, painted in oil and very beautifully done, is also by Jeronimo Romanino; in this work the artist has given singularly close imitations of natural objects.

But a much more able artist than Romanino was Alessandro Moretto, who painted a fresco beneath the arch of the Porta