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colours, which conflict with one another and destroy all the gradation;
but he has acquitted himself better in a window of glass designed and
painted by himself, and executed for the Chapel of S. Bernardino in S.
Lorenzo, in the same city. But to return to Giovan Battista; having gone
back after the above-named works to Modena, he has executed in the same
S. Piero, for which Niccolo painted the altar-piece, two great scenes at
the sides, of the actions of S. Peter and S. Paul, in which he has
acquitted himself with no ordinary excellence.

In the same city of Modena there have also been some sculptors worthy to
be numbered among the good craftsmen, for, in addition to Modanino, of
whom mention has been made in another place, there has been a master
called Il Modena, who has executed most beautiful works in figures of
terra-cotta, of the size of life and even larger; among others, those of
a chapel in S. Domenico at Modena, and for the centre of the dormitory
of S. Piero (a monastery of Black Friars, likewise in Modena), a
Madonna, S. Benedict, S. Giustina, and another Saint. To all these
figures he has given so well the colour of marble, that they appear as
if truly of that stone; not to mention that they all have beautiful
expressions of countenance, lovely draperies, and admirable proportions.
The same master has executed similar figures for the dormitory of S.
Giovanni Evangelista at Parma; and he has made a good number of figures
in the round and of the size of life for many niches on the outer side
of S. Benedetto at Mantua, in the facade and under the portico, which
are so fine that they have the appearance of marble.

[Illustration: THE MADONNA AND CHILD WITH S. JOHN

(_After the terra-cotta by =Il Modena [Antonio Begarelli]=. Modena:
Museo Civico_)

_Alinari_]

In like manner Prospero Clemente, a sculptor of Modena, has been, and
still is, an able man in his profession, as is evident from the tomb of
Bishop Rangone, by his hand, in the Duomo of Reggio, wherein is a seated
statue of that prelate, as large as life, with two little boys, all very
well executed; which tomb he made at the commission of Signor Ercole
Rangone. In the Duomo of Parma, likewise, in the vaults below, there
is by the hand of Prospero the tomb of the Blessed Bernardo degli
Uberti, the Florentine, Cardinal and Bishop of that city, which was
finished in the year 1548, and much extolled.

Parma, also, has had at various times man