in comparison with any that are in Venice. In Padua,
for the Church of S. Antonio, he executed in stucco the said Saint
and S. Bernardino, clothed. Of the same material he made for Messer
Luigi Cornaro a Minerva, a Venus, and a Diana, larger than life and in
the round; in marble a Mercury, and in terra-cotta a nude Marzio as a
young man, who is drawing a thorn from his foot, or rather, showing
that he has drawn it out, he holds the foot with one hand, looking at
the wound, and with the other hand seems to be about to cleanse it
with a cloth; which last work, because it is the best that Jacopo ever
did, the said Messer Luigi intends to have cast in bronze. For the
same patron he made another Mercury of stone, which was afterwards
presented to Duke Federigo of Mantua.

Another disciple of Sansovino was Tiziano da Padova, a sculptor, who
carved some little figures of marble in the Loggia of the Campanile of
S. Marco at Venice; and in the Church of the same S. Marco there may
be seen, likewise fashioned and cast in bronze by him, a large and
beautiful cover for a basin in bronze, in the Chapel of S. Giovanni.
This Tiziano had made a statue of S. John, with which were the four
Evangelists and four stories of S. John, wrought with beautiful
artistry for casting in bronze; but he died at the age of thirty-five,
and the world was robbed of an excellent and valiant craftsman. And by
the same hand is the vaulting of the Chapel of S. Antonio da Padova,
with a very rich pattern of compartments in stucco. He had begun for
the same chapel a grating of five arches in bronze, which were full of
stories of that Saint, with other figures in half-relief and
low-relief; but this, also, by reason of his death and of the
disagreement of those who had the charge of having it done, remained
unfinished. Many pieces of it had already been cast, which turned out
very beautiful, and many others were made in wax, when he died, and
for the said reasons the whole work was abandoned. The same Tiziano,
when Vasari executed the above-described decorations for the gentlemen
of the Company of the Calza in Canareio, made for that work some
statues in clay and many terminal figures. And he was employed many
times on ornaments for scenic settings, theatres, arches, and other
suchlike things, whereby he won much honour; having executed works all
full of invention, fantasy, and variety, and above all with great
rapidity.

Pietro da Salo, also, was a disciple