mo painted an altar-piece fifteen palms high, which is
beside the high-altar, of the Nativity of Jesus Christ, which was very
beautiful; and then in another altar-piece in oils, for the Sacristy
of the Church of S. Spirito in Rome, the Descent of the Holy Spirit
upon the Apostles, which is a work full of grace. In like manner, in
the Church of S. Maria de Anima, the church of the German colony, he
painted in fresco the whole of the Chapel of the Fugger family (for
which Giulio Romano once executed the altar-piece), with large scenes
of the Life of Our Lady. For the high-altar of S. Jacopo degli
Spagnuoli he painted in a large altar-piece a very beautiful Christ on
the Cross with some Angels about Him, Our Lady, and S. John, and
besides this two large pictures that are one on either side of it,
each nine palms high and with a single figure, S. James the Apostle
and S. Alfonso the Bishop; in which pictures it is evident that he
used much study and diligence. On the Piazza Giudea, in the Church of
S. Tommaso, he painted in fresco the whole of a chapel that looks out
over the court of the Cenci Palace, depicting there the Nativity of
the Madonna, the Annunciation by the Angel, and the Birth of Our
Saviour Jesus Christ. For Cardinal Capodiferro he painted a hall in
his palace, which is very beautiful, with stories of the ancient
Romans. And at Bologna he once executed for the Church of S. Martino
the altar-piece of the high-altar, which was much commended. For
Signor Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma and Piacenza, whom he served
for some time, he executed many works, and in particular a picture
that is in Piacenza, painted for a chapel, wherein are Our Lady, S.
Joseph, S. Michael, S. John the Baptist, and an Angel, of eight palms.

[Illustration: THE MARTYRDOM OF S. CATHARINE

(_After the painting by =Sermoneta=. Rome: S. Maria Maggiore_)

_Alinari_]

After his return from Lombardy he painted in the Minerva, in the
passage of the sacristy, a Christ on the Cross, and another in the
church. Then he painted in oils a S. Catharine and a S. Agatha; and in
S. Luigi he executed a scene in fresco in competition with Pellegrino
Pellegrini of Bologna and the Florentine Jacopo del Conte. In an
altar-piece in oils, sixteen palms high, executed not long since for
the Church of S. Alo, opposite to the Misericordia, a Company of the
Florentines, he painted Our Lady, S. James the Apostle, and the
Bishops S. Alo and S. Martino; and in S.