lean as the
wax, so that the very surface that came from the fire had no need at
all to be polished, as may be seen from the statue itself, which was
placed below the first arches that support the tribune of the new S.
Pietro. On this tomb, which according to a design by his hand was to
be isolated, were to be placed four figures, which he executed in
marble with beautiful inventions according as he was directed by M.
Annibale Caro, who had the charge of this from the Pope and Cardinal
Farnese. One was Justice, which is a nude figure lying upon some
draperies, with the belt of the sword across the breast, and the sword
hidden; in one hand she has the fasces of consular jurisdiction, and
in the other a flame of fire, and she is young in countenance, and has
the hair plaited, the nose aquiline, and the aspect full of
expression. The second was Prudence in the form of a matron, young in
aspect, with a mirror in the hand, and a closed book, and partly nude,
partly draped. The third was Abundance, a young woman crowned with
ears of corn, with a horn of plenty in one hand and the ancient
corn-measure in the other, and clothed in such a manner as to show the
nude beneath the draperies. The fourth and last was Peace, who is a
matron with a boy that has lost his eyes, and with the Caduceus of
Mercury. He made, likewise, a scene also of metal and after the
directions of the above-named Caro, which was to be placed in the
work, with two River Gods, one representing a lake and the other a
river that is in the domains of the Farnesi; and, besides all these
things, there was to be there a mount covered with lilies, and with
the rainbow of Iris. But the whole was not afterwards carried into
execution, for the reasons that have been given in the Life of
Michelagnolo. It may be believed that even as these parts are in
themselves beautiful and wrought with much judgment, so they would
have succeeded as a whole together; and yet it is the air of the
piazza[15] which gives the true light and enables us to form a correct
judgment of a work.

[Footnote 15: See last line on p. 112.]

[Illustration: TOMB OF POPE PAUL III

(_After =Guglielmo della Porta=. Rome: S. Peter's_)

_Alinari_]

The same Fra Guglielmo has executed during a period of many years
fourteen stories of the life of Christ, for casting in bronze; each of
which is four palms in breadth and six in height, excepting only one,
which is twelve palms high and six broa