he placed his
name and the year when it was made. This figure is in a niche of several
kinds of stone, wrought with much diligence, without the door of S.
Lorenzo, which is the Duomo of that city. The same man made many medals,
some of which are still to be seen, particularly that of the
aforesaid Pope, and those of Antonio Rosello of Arezzo and Batista
Platina, both Secretaries to that Pontiff.

[Illustration: JONAH CAST INTO THE SEA

(_After the bronze relief by =Vellano da Padova=. Padua: S. Antonio_)

_Anderson_]

Having returned after these works to Padua with a very good name,
Vellano was held in esteem not only in his native city, but in all
Lombardy and in the March of Treviso, both because up to that time there
had been no craftsmen of excellence in those parts, and because he had
very great skill in the founding of metals. Afterwards, when Vellano was
already old, the Signoria of Venice determined to have an equestrian
statue of Bartolommeo da Bergamo made in bronze; and they allotted the
horse to Andrea del Verrocchio of Florence, and the figure to Vellano.
On hearing this, Andrea, who thought that the whole work should fall to
him, knowing himself to be, as indeed he was, a better master than
Vellano, flew into such a rage that he broke up and destroyed the whole
model of the horse that he had already finished, and went off to
Florence. But after a time, being recalled by the Signoria, who gave him
the whole work to do, he returned once more to finish it; at which
Vellano felt so much displeasure that he departed from Venice, without
saying a word or expressing his resentment in any manner, and returned
to Padua, where he afterwards lived in honour for the rest of his life,
contenting himself with the works that he had made and with being loved
and honoured, as he ever was, in his native place. He died at the age of
ninety-two, and was buried in the Santo with that distinction which his
excellence, having honoured both himself and his country, had deserved.
His portrait was sent to me from Padua by certain friends of mine, who
had it, so they told me, from the very learned and very reverend
Cardinal Bembo, whose love of our arts was no less remarkable than his
supremacy over all other men of our age in all the rarest qualities and
gifts both of mind and body.

FRA FILIPPO LIPPI

LIFE OF FRA FILIPPO LIPPI

PAINTER OF FLORENCE

Fra Filippo di Tommaso Lippi, a Carmelite, was born in Flor