having meanwhile been overtaken by death, Giulio Romano and
Giovan Francesco, who had been his disciples, remained together for a
long time, and finished in company such of Raffaello's works as had been
left unfinished, and in particular those that he had begun in the Vigna
of the Pope, and likewise those of the Great Hall in the Palace, wherein
are painted by the hands of these two masters the stories of
Constantine, with excellent figures, executed in an able and beautiful
manner, although the invention and the sketches of these stories came in
part from Raffaello. While these works were in progress, Perino del
Vaga, a very excellent painter, took to wife a sister of Giovan
Francesco; on which account they executed many works in company. And
afterwards Giulio and Giovan Francesco, continuing to work together,
painted a panel in two parts, containing the Assumption of Our Lady,
which went to Monteluci, near Perugia; and also other works and pictures
for various places.

[Illustration: THE BAPTISM OF CONSTANTINE

(_After the fresco by =Giovanni Francesco Penni [Il Fattore]=. Rome: The
Vatican_)

_Anderson_]

Then, receiving a commission from Pope Clement to paint a panel-picture
like the one by Raffaello (which is in S. Pietro a Montorio), which was
to be sent to France, whither Raffaello had meant to send the first,
they began it; but soon afterwards, having fallen out with each other,
they divided their inheritance of drawings and everything else left
to them by Raffaello, and Giulio went off to Mantua, where he executed
an endless number of works for the Marquis. Thither, not long
afterwards, Giovan Francesco also made his way, drawn either by love of
Giulio or by the hope of finding work; but he received so cold a welcome
from Giulio that he soon departed, and, after travelling round Lombardy,
he returned to Rome. And from Rome he went to Naples by ship in the
train of the Marchese del Vasto, taking with him the now finished copy
of the panel-picture of S. Pietro a Montorio, with other works, which he
left in Ischia, an island belonging to the Marquis, while the panel was
placed where it is at the present day, in the Church of S. Spirito degli
Incurabili at Naples. Having thus settled in Naples, where he occupied
himself with drawing and painting, Giovan Francesco was entertained and
treated with great kindness by Tommaso Cambi, a Florentine merchant, who
managed the affairs of that nobleman. But he did not live