e seen much delicacy
and grace and great beauty of manner.

At this same time M. Marchionne Baldassini, having caused a house to be
built for him near S. Agostino, as has been related, by Antonio da San
Gallo, who designed it very well, desired that a hall which Antonio had
constructed there should be painted all over; and after passing in
review many of the young painters, to the end that it might be well and
beautifully done, he finally resolved to give it to Perino. Having
agreed about the price, Perino set his hand to it, nor did he turn his
attention from that work to any other until he had brought it to a very
happy conclusion in fresco. In that hall he made compartments by means
of pilasters which have between them niches great and small; in the
larger niches are various figures of philosophers, two in each niche,
and in some one only, and in the smaller niches are little boys, partly
naked and partly draped in veiling, while above those small niches are
some heads of women, painted in imitation of marble. Above the cornice
that crowns the pilasters there follows a second series of pictures,
separated from the first series below, with scenes in figures of no
great size from the history of the Romans, beginning with Romulus and
ending with Numa Pompilius. There are likewise various ornaments in
imitation of different kinds of marble, and over the beautiful
chimney-piece of stone is a figure of Peace burning arms and trophies,
which is very lifelike. This work was held in much estimation during the
lifetime of M. Marchionne, as it has been ever since by all those who
work in painting, and also by many others not of the profession, who
give it extraordinary praise.

In the Convent of the Nuns of S. Anna, Perino painted a chapel in fresco
with many figures, which was executed by him with his usual diligence.
And on an altar in S. Stefano del Cacco he painted in fresco, for a
Roman lady, a Pieta with the Dead Christ in the lap of Our Lady, with a
portrait from life of that lady, which still has the appearance of a
living figure; and the whole work is very beautiful, and executed with
great mastery and facility.

In those days Antonio da San Gallo had built at the corner of a house in
Rome, which is known as the Imagine di Ponte, a tabernacle finely
adorned with travertine and very handsome, in which something beautiful
in the way of painting was to be executed; and he received a commission
from the owner of that ho