n anything else. In a large scene in the middle of this
facade is a Juno, seen from the thighs upwards, flying on some clouds
with the moon on her head, over which are raised her arms, one holding a
vase and the other a bowl. He also painted there a Bacchus, fat and
ruddy, with a vessel that he is upsetting, and holding with one arm a
Ceres who has many ears of corn in her hands. There, too, are the
Graces, with five little boys who are flying below and welcoming them,
in order, so they signify, to make the house of the Udoni abound with
their gifts; and to show that the same house was a friendly haven for
men of talent, he painted Apollo on one side and Pallas on the other.
This work was executed with great freshness, so that Girolamo gained
from it both honour and profit.

The same master painted a picture for the Chapel of the Madonna in S.
Petronio, in competition with certain painters of Bologna, as will be
related in the proper place. And continuing to live in Bologna, he
executed many pictures there; and in S. Petronio, in the Chapel of S.
Antonio da Padova, he depicted in oils, in imitation of marble, all the
stories of the life of the latter Saint, in which, without a doubt,
there may be perceived grace, judgment, excellence, and a great delicacy
of finish. He painted a panel-picture for S. Salvatore, of the Madonna
ascending the steps of the Temple, with some saints; and another of the
Madonna in the sky, with some children, and S. Jerome and S. Catherine
beneath, which is certainly the weakest work by his hand that is to be
seen in Bologna. Over a great portal, also, in Bologna, he painted in
fresco a Crucifix with Our Lady and S. John, all worthy of the highest
praise. For S. Domenico, at Bologna, he executed a panel-picture in oils
of Our Lady with some saints, which is the best of his works; it is near
the choir, as one ascends to the tomb of S. Dominic, and in it is the
portrait of the patron who had it painted. In like manner, he painted a
picture for Count Giovanni Battista Bentivogli, who had the cartoon by
the hand of Baldassarre of Siena, representing the story of the Magi: a
work which he carried to a very fine completion, although it contained
more than a hundred figures. There are also many other works by the hand
of Girolamo in Bologna, both in private houses and in the churches. In
Galiera he painted in chiaroscuro the facade of the Palace of the
Teofamini, with another facade behind the house of