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In Castile. 487 the church of Yepes, a small town near Toledo, which with Madrid, can boast of possessing the greater part of his works. 4. The Italian- Spanish Painters of Madrid. It w T as at this period that three families of artists, all natives of Tuscany, came to settle at Madrid. These were the Carducci, the Cajesi and the Ricci, which names were, by the Spaniards, turned into Carducho, Caxes and Rizi. We must grant a separate mention to the most famous of each family. Bartolommeo Carducci (1560 — 1608) studied art under Federigo Zuccaro, whom he accompanied to Spain towards the end of the sixteenth century. He painted, in con- junction with Pellegrino Tibaldi, the ceiling of the library in the Escorial, where he also executed various frescoes. The Descent from the Cross, which he painted in the church of S. Felipe el Real at Madrid, increased his fame — already considerable. Vincenzio Carducci (1585 — 1638) was a pupil of his elder brother Bartolommeo, and was by him taken to Spain, where he afterwards resided — in fact he was wont to consider himself a Spaniard rather than an Italian. He died while painting a S. Jerome, which bears the inscrip- tion, "Vincensius Carducho hie vitam non opus finiit 1638." He has left ' Dialogues on Painting ' (' Dialogos de las Excelencias de la Pintura'), published at Madrid in 1633, which has been much esteemed. The Museo Nacional. Madrid, still retains the greater number of the works which Carducho executed for one of the largest orders recorded in the history of art. The Car- thusian convent of el Paular intrusted him with the entire decoration of its great cloister. He was to represent the