with an incredible beauty. And
another proof is that their works are continually being drawn by all the
foreign painters; wherefore they conferred greater benefits on the art
of painting with the beautiful manner that they displayed and with their
marvellous facility, than have all the others together who have lived
from Cimabue downwards. It has been seen continually, therefore, in
Rome, and is still seen, that all the draughtsmen are inclined more to
the works of Polidoro and Maturino than to all the rest of our modern
pictures.

In the Borgo Nuovo they executed a facade in sgraffito, and on the Canto
della Pace another likewise in sgraffito; with a facade of the house of
the Spinoli, not far from that last-mentioned, on the way to the
Parione, containing athletic contests according to the custom of the
ancients, and their sacrifices, and the death of Tarpeia. Near the Torre
di Nona, on the side towards the Ponte S. Angelo, may be seen a little
facade with the Triumph of Camillus and an ancient sacrifice. In the
road that leads to the Imagine di Ponte, there is a most beautiful
facade with the story of Perillus, showing him being placed in the
bronze bull that he had made; wherein great effort may be seen in those
who are thrusting him into that bull, and terror in those who are
waiting to behold a death so unexampled, besides which there is the
seated figure of Phalaris (so I believe), ordaining with an imperious
air of great beauty the punishment of the inhuman spirit that had
invented a device so novel and so cruel in order to put men to death
with greater suffering. In this work, also, may be perceived a very
beautiful frieze of children, painted to look like bronze, and other
figures. Higher up than this they painted the facade of the house where
there is the image which is called the Imagine di Ponte, wherein are
seen several stories illustrated by them, with the Senatorial Order
dressed in the garb of ancient Rome. And in the Piazza della Dogana,
beside S. Eustachio, there is a facade of battle-pieces; and within that
church, on the right as one enters, may be perceived a little chapel
with figures painted by Polidoro.

They also executed another above the Farnese Palace for the Cepperelli,
and a facade behind the Minerva in the street that leads to the
Maddaleni; and in the latter, which contains scenes from Roman history,
may be seen, among other beautiful things, a frieze of children in
triumph, painted t