e. He has always loved his
brother-craftsmen, and in particular he has been very much the friend
of the excellent and famous Tiziano, as he also was of M. Pietro
Aretino during his lifetime. For all these reasons I have judged it
well to make this honourable record of him, although he is still
living, and particularly because now he is by way of doing little in
sculpture.

Sansovino had many disciples in Florence: Niccolo, called Tribolo, as
has been related, and Solosmeo da Settignano, who finished with the
exception of the large figures the whole of the tomb in marble that is
at Monte Casino, wherein is the body of Piero de' Medici, who was
drowned in the River Garigliano. His disciple, likewise, was Girolamo
da Ferrara, called Lombardo, of whom there has been an account in the
Life of Benvenuto Garofalo of Ferrara; which Girolamo has learned his
art both from the first Sansovino and from this second one in such a
manner, that, besides the works at Loreto of which we have spoken,
both in marble and in bronze, he has executed many works in Venice.
This master, although he came under Sansovino at the age of thirty and
knowing little of design, being rather a man of letters and a courtier
than a sculptor, although he had previously executed some works in
sculpture, nevertheless applied himself in such a manner, that in a
few years he made the proficience that may be perceived in his works
in half-relief that are in the fabrics of the Library and the Loggia
of the Campanile of S. Marco; in which he acquitted himself so well,
that he was afterwards able to make by himself alone the statues of
marble and the Prophets that he executed, as has been related, at the
Madonna of Loreto.

[Illustration: THE MIRACLE OF S. ANTHONY

(_After the relief by =Jacopo Sansovino=. Padua: S. Antonio_)

_Alinari_]

A disciple of Sansovino, also, was Jacopo Colonna, who died at Bologna
thirty years ago while executing a work of importance. This Jacopo
made for the Church of S. Salvadore in Venice a nude S. Jerome of
marble, still to be seen in a niche near the organ, which was a
beautiful figure and much extolled, and for S. Croce della Giudecca he
made a Christ also nude and of marble, who is showing His Wounds, a
work of beautiful artistry; and likewise for S. Giovanni Nuovo three
figures, S. Dorothy, S. Lucia, and S. Catharine. In S. Marina may be
seen a horse with an armed captain upon it, by his hand; and all these
works can stand