the Madonna in Heaven, the Infant Christ
presenting a palm to S. Giustina, and some Angels drawing back a piece
of drapery, with S. Alexander the Pope and S. Benedict. For the Church
of the Carmelite Friars he painted the panel-picture of their
high-altar, which is very beautiful, and for S. Sepolcro another
panel-picture of some size. In S. Giovanni Evangelista, a church of nuns
in the same city, are two panel-pictures by the hand of Girolamo, of no
little beauty, but not equal to the doors of the organ or to the picture
of the high-altar, in which is a most beautiful Transfiguration,
executed with much diligence. The same master has painted a
perspective-view in fresco in the refectory of those nuns, with a
picture in oils of the Last Supper of Christ with the Apostles, and
fresco-paintings in the Chapel of the High-Altar in the Duomo. And for
Madama Margherita of Austria, Duchess of Parma, he has made a portrait
of the Prince Don Alessandro, her son, in full armour, with his sword
over a globe of the world, and an armed figure of Parma kneeling before
him.

In a chapel of the Steccata, at Parma, he has painted in fresco the
Apostles receiving the Holy Spirit, and on an arch similar to that which
his cousin Francesco painted he has executed six Sibyls, two in colour
and four in chiaroscuro; while in a niche opposite to that arch he has
painted the Nativity of Christ, with the Shepherds adoring Him, which is
a very beautiful picture, although it was left not quite finished. For
the high-altar of the Certosa, without Parma, he has painted a
panel-picture with the three Magi; a panel for S. Piero, an abbey of
Monks of S. Bernard, at Pavia; another for the Duomo of Mantua, at the
commission of the Cardinal; and yet another panel for S. Giovanni in the
same city, containing a Christ in a glory of light, surrounded by the
Apostles, with S. John, of whom He appears to be saying, "Sic eum volo
manere," etc.; while round this panel, in six large pictures, are the
miracles of the same S. John the Evangelist.

In the Church of the Frati Zoccolanti, on the left hand, there is a
large panel-picture of the Conversion of S. Paul, a very beautiful work,
by the hand of the same man. And for the high-altar of S. Benedetto in
Pollirone, a place twelve miles distant from Mantua, he has executed a
panel-picture of Christ in the Manger being adored by the Shepherds,
with Angels singing. He has also painted--but I do not know exactly at
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