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Rh mentioned. In the Umiltà he then executed a painting entirely alone; on a large oval compartment of the ceiling namely, where he painted an Assumption of Our Lady, with other figures, a very lightsome, pleasing, and well considered performance.

In like manner, belonging to our own time, is another good painter of that same city, Andrea Schiavone namely. I call him good, because he has certainly produced many a good work, sometimes unhappily when in much want and distress. Schiavone has always imitated the manner of good masters to the best of his power, but the greater part of his pictures have been painted for the houses of private gentlemen, and I propose to speak only of those wliich are public. In the Church of San Sebastiano at Venice, and in the chapel