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Rh his work cannot be said to surpass those of the other artists who have laboured in the same place.

Bernardino di Lupino, of whom we have already made some mention elsewhere, depicted various works for the house of the Signor Gianfrancesco Babbia, which is situate near San Sepolcro in the city of Milan; the front of the house that is to say, with the Loggie, halls, and other apartments. The subjects of these pictures were taken from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and other fables; the figures are good and beautiful, and the work is carefully executed and very delicately finished. In the Munistero Maggiore likewise, Bernardino produced certain works, having decorated the entire front of the high altar with stories of different subjects, and painted a picture of Our Saviour Christ scourged at the column, with many other productions, all of which are of very fair merit.