Saints, and there he also depicted the portrait of Madonna Laura degli Schioppi, who had caused this chapel to be constructed, and who was much celebrated by the writers of that time for her great abilities and virtues as well as for her beauty. In the church of San Griovanni-in-Fonte, which is near the cathedral, this artist painted a small picture of San. Martino; he also took the likeness of Messer Marc Antonio della Torre, who was at that time very young, hut afterwards became a very learned man and held lectures in Padua and Pavia; he painted that of Messer Giulio likewise; both these heads are now in the possession of their heirs at Verona. For the Prior of San Giorgio he painted a picture of Our Lady, which has ever since been preserved as a good painting in the apartment of the priors, where it still remains. A picture representing Actseon transformed into a Stag was painted by this artist for the organist Brunetti, by whom it was presented to Girolamo Cicogna, an excellent worker in embroidery and engineer to the Bishop Giberti, this is now in the possession of Messer Vincenzio Cicogna his son.
Giovanni took the ground-plans of all the antiquities to be found in Verona, the triumphal arches and the Colosseum, all which were revised by the architect Falconetto,[1] to be used for adorning the book which had been written by Messer Torello Saraina, concerning the Antiquities of Verona, who described them from observations taken on the spot, and ultimately had the whole printed, when it was sent for myself by Giovanni Caroto to Bologna, where I then was, being occupied with the works of the Refectory of San Michele in Bosco, and where I received the same, together with the portrait of the reverend Father Don Cipriano da Verona, who was twice general of the monks of Monte Oliveto. This last was sent to me by Giovanni, to the end that I might avail myself thereof for one of the paintings in that refectory, and it is now in my house at Florence, with many other paintings by the hands of different masters.
Giovanni died at about sixty years of age, having lived without children and without ambition, but with very sufficient means; he departed from life rejoicing at the sight of many of his disciples who had attained to good reputation;
- ↑ Of whom some few remarks will be found hereafter.
