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Rh Sansovino. At Piere del Sacco likewise, Griuseppe has produced a very beautiful fa9ade, and at Bagnuolo, a place belonging to the Monks of the Santo Spirito at Venice, he has painted a picture in oil; while for the same fathers he has executed the ceiling and wainscot of the Refectory in their Monastery of Santo Spirito, representing a very fine Cenacolo, or Last Supper, at the upper end of the same, and covering the remainder of the walls with pictures in various compartments.

In the Palace of San Marco, Giuseppe has painted the Sybils, the Prophets, the Cardinal Virtues, and Our Saviour Christ with the Maries. All these works, which are in the Hall of the Doge, have been very highly extolled; and in the beforementioned Library of San Marco there are two pictures by the hand of this artist, which he painted in concurrence with other Venetian painters of whom mention has before been made. Having been invited to Rome by the Cardinal Emulio on the death of Francesco Salviati, Giuseppe completed one of the largest stories in the Hall of the Kings, and commenced another. At a later period, and when Pope Pius IV. v/as dead, Giuseppe returned to Venice, where the Signoria has given him a ceiling in the Palace to decorate, and this he is to cover with pictures in oil; the vaulting in question being that at the summit of the new staircase.

The same artist has produced six very beautiful paintings in oil, one of which is at the Altar of the Madonna, in the Church of San Francesco della Vigna; second is at the High Altar in the Church of the Servites; the third, in the Friars Minors; the fourth, in the Madonna dell’ Orta; the fifth, at San Zaccheria; and the sixth, at San Moise. Giuseppe has also painted two pictures at Murato; both of which are executed with great care and in a fine manner. But of this artist, since he still lives and is becoming a very excellent master, I will not for the present add more, except to remark that he has also devoted himself to the study of Geometry, in addition to that of painting, and the Volute of