grace, as
is also the head of the Duke, which is of perfect beauty; and medals
and other works in stucco, likewise, as I have said on another
occasion, are being made of absolute perfection at the present day.
And recently Mario Capocaccia of Ancona has executed with coloured
stucco, in little cases, heads and portraits that are truly most
beautiful; such as a portrait of Pope Pius V, which I saw not long
since, and that of Cardinal Alessandrino. I have seen, also, portraits
of the same kind by the hands of the sons of Polidoro, a painter of
Perugia, which are very beautiful.

But to return to Milan; looking again a year ago over the works of the
sculptor Gobbo, of whom mention has been made in another place, I did
not see anything that was otherwise than ordinary, excepting an Adam
and Eve, a Judith, and a S. Helena, in marble, which are about the
Duomo; with two other statues of dead persons, representing Lodovico,
called Il Moro, and Beatrice his wife, which were to be placed upon a
tomb by the hand of Giovan Jacomo della Porta, sculptor and architect
to the Duomo of Milan, who in his youth executed many works under the
said Gobbo; and those named above, which were to go on that tomb, are
wrought with a high finish. The same Giovan Jacomo has executed many
beautiful works for the Certosa of Pavia, and in particular on the
tomb of the Conte di Virtu and on the facade of the church. From him
one his nephew learned his art, by name Guglielmo, who in Milan, about
the year 1530, applied himself with much study to copying the works of
Leonardo da Vinci, which gave him very great assistance. Whereupon he
went with Giovan Jacomo to Genoa, when in the year 1531 the latter was
invited to execute the sepulchre of S. John the Baptist, and he
devoted himself with great study to design under Perino del Vaga; and,
not therefore abandoning sculpture, he made one of the sixteen
pedestals that are in that sepulchre, on which account, it being seen
that he was acquitting himself very well, he was commissioned to make
all the others. Next, he executed two Angels in marble, which are in
the Company of S. Giovanni; and for the Bishop of Servega he made two
portraits in marble, and a Moses larger than life, which was placed in
the Church of S. Lorenzo. And then, after he had made a Ceres of
marble that was placed over the door of the house of Ansaldo Grimaldi,
he executed for placing over the Gate of the Cazzuola, in that city, a
statue o