great bass-viol, looking
down at the fingerboard of the instrument, the attitude of her person
showing that her ear and her voice are fixed intently on the sound;
and of the other two, one is playing a lute, and the other singing
from a book. Near these women is a Cupid without wings, who is playing
a harpsichord, signifying that Love is born from Music, or rather,
that Love is always in company with Music; and, because he never parts
from her, Paolino made him without wings. In the same picture he
painted Pan, the God, according to the poets, of shepherds, with
certain pipes made of the bark of trees, as it were consecrated to him
as votive offerings by shepherds who have been victorious in playing
them. Two other pictures Paolino painted in the same place; in one is
Arithmetic, with certain Philosophers dressed in the ancient manner,
and in the other is Honour, seated on a throne, to whom sacrifices are
being offered and royal crowns presented. But, seeing that this young
man is at this very moment at the height of his activity and not yet
in his thirty-second year, I shall say nothing more of him for the
present.

[Illustration: VENICE ENTHRONED, WITH JUSTICE AND PEACE

(_After the painting by =Paolo Veronese [Paolino _or_ Caliari]=. Venice:
Ducal Palace_)

_Anderson_]

Likewise a Veronese is Paolo Farinato, an able painter, who, after
having been a disciple of Niccolo Ursino,[12] has executed many works
at Verona. The most important are a hall in the house of the
Fumanelli, which he filled with various scenes in fresco-colours at
the desire of Messer Antonio, a gentleman of that family, most famous
as physician over all Europe, and two very large pictures in the
principal chapel of S. Maria in Organo. In one of these is the story
of the Innocents, and in the other is the scene when the Emperor
Constantine causes a number of children to be brought before him,
intending to kill them and to bathe in their blood, in order to cure
himself of his leprosy. Then in the recess of that chapel are two
pictures, large, but smaller than the others, in one of which is
Christ receiving S. Peter, who is walking towards Him on the water,
and in the other the dinner that S. Gregory gives to certain poor men.
In all these works, which are much to be extolled, is a vast number
of figures, executed with good design, study, and diligence. By the
hand of the same master is an altar-picture of S. Martino that was
placed in the Duomo