er, captives, with a Fame and a Thetis, all of
stone; and an Angel ten feet high, a very beautiful statue, which has
been placed upon the Campanile of the Duomo in Verona. And to Dalmatia
he sent four Apostles also of stone, each five feet high, for the
Cathedral of Trau. He made, also, some figures in silver for the
Scuola of S. Giovanni Evangelista in Venice, which were all in
full-relief and rich in grace, and a S. Teodoro of two feet in silver,
in the round. For the Chapel of the Grimani, in S. Sebastiano, he
wrought two figures in marble, each three feet high; and then he made
a Pieta, with two figures of stone, held to be good, which are at S.
Salvadore in Venice. He made a Mercury, held to be a good figure, for
the pulpit of the Palazzo di S. Marco, which looks out over the
Piazza; and for S. Francesco della Vigna he made three figures large
as life--S. Anthony, S. Sebastian, and S. Rocco--all of stone and full
of beauty and grace, and well wrought. For the Church of the
Crocicchieri he made in stucco two figures each six feet high, very
beautiful, which are placed on the high-altar; and of the same
material he made, as has been already told, all the ornaments that are
in the vaulting of the new staircase of the Palazzo di S. Marco, with
various patterns of compartments in stucco, where Battista Franco
afterwards painted in the spaces the scenes, figures, and grotesques
that are there. In like manner, Alessandro executed the ornaments of
the staircase of the Library of S. Marco, all works of great mastery;
and a chapel for the Friars Minors, and in the altar-piece of marble,
which is very large and very beautiful, the Assumption of Our Lady in
half-relief, with five great figures at the foot which have in them
something of the grand and are made with a beautiful manner, a lovely
and dignified flow of draperies, and much diligence of execution;
which figures of marble--S. Jerome, S. John the Baptist, S. Peter, S.
Andrew, and S. Leonardo--each six feet high, are the best of all the
works that he has done up to the present. And as a crown to that
chapel, on the frontispiece, are two figures likewise of marble, each
eight feet high and very graceful. The same Vittoria has executed
many portraits in marble and most beautiful heads, which are good
likenesses, such as that of Signor Giovan Battista Feredo, placed in
the Church of S. Stefano, that of Camillo Trevisano, the orator,
placed in the Church of SS. Giovanni e Po