ace may be seen disdain and a desire for
vengeance. And within that house they executed a number of landscapes.

They decorated the facade of S. Pietro in Vincula, painting therein
stories of S. Peter, with some large figures of Prophets. And so
widespread was the fame of these masters by reason of the abundance of
their work, that the pictures painted by them with such beauty in public
places enabled them to win extraordinary praise in their lifetime, with
glory infinite and eternal through the number of their imitators after
death. On a facade, also, in the square where stands the Palace of the
Medici, behind the Piazza Navona, they painted the Triumphs of Paulus
Emilius, with a vast number of other Roman stories. And at S. Silvestro
di Montecavallo they executed some little things for Fra Mariano, both
in the house and in the garden; and in the church they painted his
chapel, with two scenes in colour from the life of S. Mary Magdalene, in
which the disposition of the landscapes is executed with supreme grace
and judgment. For Polidoro, in truth, executed landscapes and groups of
trees and rocks better than any other painter, and it is to him that art
owes that facility which our modern craftsmen show in their works.

They also painted many apartments and friezes in various houses at Rome,
executing them with colours in fresco and in distemper; but these works
were attempted by them as trials, because they were never able to
achieve with colours that beauty which they always displayed in their
works in chiaroscuro, in their imitations of bronze, or in terretta.
This may still be seen in the house of Torre Sanguigna, which once
belonged to the Cardinal of Volterra, on the facade of which they
painted a most beautiful decoration in chiaroscuro, and in the interior
some figures in colour, the painting of which is so badly executed, that
in it they diverted from its true excellence the good design which they
always had. And this appeared all the more strange because of there
being beside them an escutcheon of Pope Leo, with nude figures, by the
hand of Giovan Francesco Vetraio, who would have done extraordinary
things if death had not taken him from our midst. However, not cured by
this of their insane confidence, they also painted some children in
colour for the altar of the Martelli in S. Agostino at Rome, a work
which Jacopo Sansovino completed by making a Madonna of marble; and
these children appear to be by the hand