er figures around, for the Marchioness of Pescara, and another like
it in every part for Cardinal Farnese, who sent it to the Empress, who
is now the wife of Maximilian and sister of King Philip; and another
little picture by the same master's hand he sent to his Imperial
Majesty, in which, in a most beautiful little landscape, is S. George
killing the Serpent, executed with supreme diligence. But this was
surpassed in beauty and design by a larger picture that Don Giulio
painted for a Spanish gentleman, in which is the Emperor Trajan as he
is seen in medals with the Province of Judaea on the reverse; which
picture was sent to the above-named Maximilian, now Emperor.

For the same Cardinal Farnese he has executed two other little
pictures; in one is Jesus Christ nude, with the Cross in His hands,
and in the other is Christ led by the Jews and accompanied by a vast
multitude to Mount Calvary, with the Cross on His shoulder, and behind
Him Our Lady and the other Maries in attitudes full of grace, such as
might move to pity a heart of stone. And in two large sheets for a
Missal, he has painted for that Cardinal Jesus Christ instructing the
Apostles in the doctrine of the Holy Evangel, and the Universal
Judgment--a work so beautiful, nay, so marvellous, so stupendous, that
I am confounded at the thought of it; and I hold it as certain that it
is not possible, I do not say to execute, but to see or even imagine
anything in miniature more beautiful.

It is a notable thing that in many of these works, and particularly in
the Office of the Madonna described above, Don Giulio has made some
little figures not larger than very small ants, with all the members
so depicted and distinguished, that more could not have been done in
figures of the size of life; and that everywhere there are dispersed
portraits from nature of men and women, not less like the reality than
if they had been executed, large as life and very natural, by Tiziano
or Bronzino. Besides which, in some ornaments of the borders there
may be seen little figures both nude and in other manners, painted in
the likeness of cameos, which, marvellously small as they are,
resemble in those proportions the most colossal giants; such is the
art and surpassing diligence that Don Giulio uses in his work. Of him
I have wished to give to the world this information, to the end that
those may know something of him who are not or will not be able to see
any of his works, from their