that his own works should be neglected by reason of the rivalry
and emulation between the craftsmen; adding also that, when a master
does well, it is the works that give a name to the place, and not the
place to the works. Notwithstanding this, Taddeo so went to work by
other means with Emulio, that finally he was commissioned to execute
one of the smaller scenes over a door, not being able, either by
prayers or by any other means, to obtain the commission for one of the
large scenes; and, in truth, it is said that Emulio was acting with
caution in the matter, for the reason that, hoping that Giuseppe
Salviati would surpass all the others, he was minded to give him the
rest, and perchance to throw to the ground all that might have been done
by the others. Now, after all the men named above had carried their
works well forward, the Pope desired to see them all; and so, everything
being uncovered, he recognized (and all the Cardinals and the best
craftsmen were of the same opinion) that Taddeo had acquitted himself
better than any of the others, although all had done passing well. His
Holiness, therefore, commanded Signor Agabrio that he should cause
Cardinal Emulio to commission him to execute one of the larger scenes;
whereupon the head-wall was allotted to him, wherein is the door of the
Pauline Chapel. And there he made a beginning with the work, but he did
not carry it any farther, for, the death of the Pope supervening,
everything was uncovered for the holding of the Conclave, although many
of those scenes had not been finished. Of the scene that Taddeo began in
that place, we have the design by his hand, sent to us by him, in the
book of drawings that we have so often mentioned.

Taddeo painted at the same time, besides some other little things, a
picture with a very beautiful Christ, which was to be sent to Caprarola
for Cardinal Farnese; which work is now in the possession of his brother
Federigo, who says that he desires it for himself as long as he lives.
The picture receives its light from some weeping Angels, who are holding
torches. But since the works that Taddeo executed at Caprarola will be
described at some length in a little time, in discoursing of Vignuola,
who built that fabric, for the present I shall say nothing more of them.

Federigo was meanwhile summoned to Venice, and made an agreement with
the Patriarch Grimani to finish for him the chapel in S. Francesco della
Vigna, which had remained incom