Poland a picture wherein was Jove with a Nymph, which was
held to be a very beautiful thing. And to Flanders he sent two other
most beautiful pictures, a S. Mary Magdalene in the Desert accompanied
by some Angels, and a Diana who is bathing with her Nymphs in a fount;
which two pictures the Milanese Candiano caused him to paint, the
physician of Queen Maria, as presents for her Highness. At Augsburg,
in the Palace of the Fugger family, he executed many works of the
greatest importance, to the value of three thousand crowns. And in the
same city he painted for the Prineri, great men in that place, a large
picture wherein he counterfeited in perspective all the five Orders of
architecture, which was a very beautiful work; and another
chamber-picture, which is in the possession of the Cardinal of
Augsburg. At Crema he has executed two altar-pieces for S. Agostino,
in one of which is portrayed Signor Giulio Manfrone, representing a S.
George, in full armour. The same master has painted many works at
Civitale di Belluno, which are extolled, and in particular an
altar-piece in S. Maria and another in S. Giosef, which are very
beautiful. He sent to Signor Ottaviano Grimaldo a portrait of him the
size of life and most beautiful, and with it another picture, equal in
size, of a very lustful woman. Having then gone to Milan, Paris
painted for the Church of S. Celso an altar-piece with some figures in
the air, and beneath them a very beautiful landscape, at the instance,
so it is said, of Signor Carlo da Roma; and for the palace of the same
lord two large pictures in oils, in one Venus and Mars under Vulcan's
net, and in the other King David seeing Bathsheba being bathed by her
serving-women in the fount; and also the portrait of that lord and
that of Signora Paola Visconti, his consort, and some pieces of
landscape not very large, but most beautiful. At this same time he
painted many of Ovid's Fables for the Marchese d'Astorga, who took
them with him to Spain; and for Signor Tommaso Marini, likewise, he
painted many things of which there is no need to make mention.

[Illustration: PORTRAIT OF A LADY

(_After the painting by =Paris Bordone=. London: National Gallery, No.
674_)

_M.S._]

And this much it must suffice to have said of Paris, who, being
seventy-five years of age, lives quietly at home with his comforts,
and works for pleasure at the request of certain Princes and others
his friends, avoiding rivalries and certai