San Francesco. This master was so good a man, so religious and so orderly, that no word which was not a praiseworthy one was ever known to proceed from his mouth.
A disciple of Francesco, and one who knew much more than his master, was the Veronese, Paolo Cavazzuola,[1] by whom very many works were performed in his native city; I say in his’ native city, because it is not known that he ever worked in any other place. At San Nazzaro,[2] a cloister of the Black Friars in Verona, Cavazzuolo depicted many subjects in fresco near those executed by his master Francesco, but the whole of these have been destroyed, that church having been rebuilt by the pious munificence of the reverend Father Don Mauro Lonichi, a noble Veronese, and the Abbot of that monastery. He likewise painted a fresco in the old house of the Fumanelli[3] family in the Via del Paradiso, depicting thereon the Sybil, who is showing to the Emperor Augustus, Our Saviour in the air, and borne in the arms of his Mother. This is a work, for one of those first executed by the master, of very tolerable merit.[4] For the Chapel of the Fontani in Santa Maria-in-Organo our artist painted, also in fresco, the two Angels San Michele and San Raffaello;[5] they are on the outer side of the chapel. At Sant’ Eufemia also, in the street which is opposite to the chapel of the Angel Raphael, and over a window which gives light to a landing-place in the staircase of that chapel, Paolo depicted the Angel with Tobit, whom he is guiding on his way; a very beautiful little work.[6]
Over the door of the bell-tower of San Bernardino, Paolo Cavazzuola painted a figure of that Saint in fresco, and
- ↑ Paolo Morando, called Il Cavazzuola, was accustomed to inscribe on his pictures Paulus Veronensis, which has caused some to mistake them for those of Paolo Cagliari, although the manner is entirely different from that of the latter and later master.
- ↑ For the legend of this saint, see Sacred and Legendary Art, vol. ii p. 285.
- ↑ Now that of the Stagnoli. It bears the number 5009.
- ↑ The Sybil, with another picture omitted by Vasari, and representing the Sacrifice of Abraham, is still in existence.—Ed. Flor., 1832-8.
- ↑ These angels still maintain their place. —Ibid.
- ↑ This work also remains; it bears the date 1520, written as follows, m.v.xx.
