Lorenzo in Lucina, in the
Chapel of the Countess of Carpi, he painted in fresco a S. Francis who
is receiving the Stigmata. In the Hall of Kings, at the time of Pope
Pius IV, as has been related, he executed a scene in fresco over the
door of the Chapel of Sixtus; in that scene, which was much extolled,
Pepin, King of the Franks, is presenting Ravenna to the Roman Church,
and is leading as prisoner Astulf, King of the Lombards; and we have
the design of it by Girolamo's own hand in our book, with many others
by the same master. And, finally, he has now in hand the Chapel of
Cardinal Cesis in S. Maria Maggiore, for which he has already executed
in a large altar-piece the Martyrdom of S. Catharine on the wheel,
which is a most beautiful picture, as are the others on which both
there and elsewhere, with much study, he is continually at work. I
shall not make mention of the portraits and other pictures and little
works of Girolamo, because, besides that they are without number,
these are enough to make him known as a valiant and excellent painter.

Having said above, in the Life of Perino del Vaga, that the painter
Marcello Mantovano worked many years under him at pictures that gave
him a great name, I have to say in this place, coming more to
particulars, that he once painted in the Church of S. Spirito the
whole Chapel of S. Giovanni Evangelista and its altar-piece, with the
portrait of a Knight Commander of the same S. Spirito, who built that
church and constructed that chapel; which portrait is a very good
likeness, and the altar-piece most beautiful. Whereupon a Friar of the
Piombo, having seen his beautiful manner, caused him to paint in
fresco in the Pace, over the door that leads from the church into the
convent, Jesus Christ as a boy disputing with the Doctors in the
Temple, which is a very lovely work. But since he has always delighted
to make portraits and little things, abandoning larger works, he has
executed an infinite number of these; and among them may be seen some
of Pope Paul III, which are beautiful and speaking likenesses. In like
manner, from the designs of Michelagnolo and from his works he has
executed a vast number of things likewise small, and among these he
has depicted in one of his works the whole facade of the Judgment,
which is a rare thing and executed excellently well; and in truth, for
small paintings, it would not be possible to do better. For which
reason, finally, that most gentle Messe