e to that, on
the other wall, is Christ driving from the Temple those who with their
buying and selling were making it a house of traffic and a market-place;
with many things worthy of consideration and praise. Over those two
scenes are some stories of the Madonna, and on the vaulting figures
that are of no great size, but passing graceful; with some buildings and
landscapes, which in their essence show the love that he bears to art,
and how he seeks the perfection of design and invention. And opposite to
the altar-piece, on high, is a story of Ezekiel, when he saw a great
multitude of bones reclothe themselves with flesh and take to themselves
their members; in which this young man has demonstrated how much he
desires to master the anatomy of the human body, and how he has studied
it and given it his attention. And, in truth, in this his first work of
importance, as also in the nuptials of his Highness, with figures in
relief and stories in painting, he has proved himself and given great
signs and promise, as he continues to do, that he is like to become an
excellent painter; and not in this only, but in some other smaller
works, and recently in a small picture full of little figures in the
manner of miniature, which he has executed for Don Francesco, Prince of
Florence, a much-extolled work; and other pictures and portraits he has
painted with great study and diligence, in order to become practised and
to acquire a grand manner.

Another young man, likewise a pupil of Bronzino and one of our
Academicians, called Giovan Maria Butteri, has shown good mastery and
much dexterity in what he did, besides many other smaller pictures and
other works, for the obsequies of Michelagnolo and for the coming of the
above-named most illustrious Queen Joanna to Florence.

And another disciple, first of Pontormo and then of Bronzino, has been
Cristofano dell' Altissimo, a painter, who, after having executed in his
youth many pictures in oils and some portraits, was sent by the Lord
Duke Cosimo to Como, to copy many pictures of illustrious persons in the
Museum of Monsignor Giovio, out of the vast number which that man, so
distinguished in our times, collected in that place. Many others, also,
the Lord Duke has obtained by the labours of Vasari; and of all these
portraits a list[1] will be made in the index of this book, in order not
to occupy too much space in this discourse. In the work of these
portraits Cristofano has exerted hims