, and in S. Polo he painted three chapels,
in the largest of which he depicted Christ rising from the dead, the
size of life, and accompanied by a great multitude of Angels; in the
second some Saints with many Angels about them, and in the third Jesus
Christ upon a cloud, with Our Lady, who is presenting to Him S.
Dominic. All these works have made him known as an able man and a
lover of his city.

In Venice, where he has dwelt almost always, he has executed many
works at various times. But the most beautiful, the most remarkable
and the most worthy of praise that Paris ever painted, was a scene in
the Scuola of S. Marco, at SS. Giovanni e Polo, wherein is the story
of the fisherman presenting to the Signoria of Venice the ring of S.
Mark, with a very beautiful building in perspective, about which is
seated the Senate with the Doge; among which Senators are many
portraits from nature, lifelike and well painted beyond belief. The
beauty of this work, executed so well and coloured in fresco, was the
reason that he began to be employed by many gentlemen. Thus in the
great house of the Foscari, near S. Barnaba, he executed many
paintings and pictures, and among them a Christ who, having descended
to the Limbo of Hell, is delivering the Holy Fathers; which is held to
be a work out of the ordinary. For the Church of S. Giobbe in Canal
Reio he painted a most beautiful altar-piece, and for S. Giovanni in
Bragola another, and the same for S. Maria della Celeste and for S.
Marina.

[Illustration: THE FISHERMAN AND THE DOGE GRADENIGO

(_After the painting by =Paris Bordone=. Venice: Accademia_)

_Anderson_]

But, knowing that he who wishes to be employed in Venice is obliged to
endure too much servitude in paying court to one man or another, Paris
resolved, as a man of quiet nature and far removed from certain
methods of procedure, whenever an occasion might present itself, to go
abroad to execute such works as Fortune might set before him, without
having to go about begging. Wherefore, having made his way with a good
opportunity into France in the year 1538, to serve King Francis, he
executed for him many portraits of ladies and other pictures with
various paintings; and at the same time he painted for Monseigneur de
Guise a most beautiful church-picture, and a chamber-picture of
Venus and Cupid. For the Cardinal of Lorraine he painted a Christ
in an "Ecce Homo," a Jove with Io, and many other works. He sent to
the King of