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PAINTERS EMPLOYED BY THE POPE. I27<br />

Torquato Conti,^ and Paciotti^ were <strong>the</strong> engineers em-<br />

ployed by <strong>the</strong> Pope. According to Catena Pius V.<br />

spent 341,800 scudi upon his building operations. ^ Of <strong>the</strong><br />

painters employed by <strong>the</strong> Pope, among whom was to be found<br />

a Ne<strong>the</strong>rlander, Bartolomaeus Sprenger,* Vasari is <strong>the</strong> one<br />

most frequently mentioned. Towards <strong>the</strong> end <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> ponti-<br />

ficate <strong>of</strong> Pius V. he sketched <strong>the</strong> great mural paintings which<br />

were to decorate <strong>the</strong> Sala Regia ;<br />

besides <strong>the</strong> pictures <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

return <strong>of</strong> Gregory XI. <strong>from</strong> Avignon to Rome, no less than<br />

three paintings were to celebrate <strong>the</strong> victory over <strong>the</strong> Turks,<br />

but only that <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Battle <strong>of</strong> Lepanto had been finished when<br />

<strong>the</strong> Pope died.^<br />

^ See <strong>the</strong> *report <strong>of</strong> Cusano <strong>of</strong> May 18, 1566, State Archives,<br />

Vienna.<br />

* See <strong>the</strong> *brief <strong>of</strong> February 27, 1572. Archives <strong>of</strong> Briefs,<br />

Rome. Payments to <strong>the</strong> " Cavalier Paciotto " in *Deposit.,<br />

t- 157 (^572), State Archives, Rome.<br />

105 .'<br />

* Catena, 226.<br />

* See Jahrb. der Kunstsamml. der dsterr. Kaiserhauses, XXVIII.<br />

cf- Jansen-Pastor, VI., 15-16, 113. Bidlett. de I'Institut<br />

hisiorique Beige a Rome, I., Rome, 1919, 309. Zuccaro fell a<br />

victim to <strong>the</strong> plague which raged during <strong>the</strong> summer <strong>of</strong> 1566 ;<br />

see *Avviso di Roma <strong>of</strong> September 7, 1566 ; <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r day took<br />

place <strong>the</strong> burial <strong>of</strong> " Thadeo pittore tenuto in tal stima che<br />

I'hanno posto nella Ritonda vicino a Raftaello d'Urbino." (Urb.<br />

1040, p. 282b, Vatican Library). His exaggerated epitaph in<br />

Forcella, L, 297. In a *letter <strong>of</strong> May 29, 1569, Arco speaks <strong>of</strong><br />

a " dipintore chiamato Uhsse da Volterra (la sua pr<strong>of</strong>essione<br />

principale e di lavorare di stucho et di fontane) " whom he<br />

recommends to <strong>the</strong> Emperor (State Archives, Vienna). For <strong>the</strong><br />

lack <strong>of</strong> painters in Rome (1568) see Gachard, Corresp. de Philippe<br />

II., II., 51. For <strong>the</strong> goldsmiths <strong>of</strong> Pius V. see Arch. sior. Lonib.,<br />

1877, L, 295 seq. and Kunsthistor. Jahrb. des dsterr. Kaiserhauses,<br />

XII., 153 seq., where <strong>the</strong>re is an illustration and reproduction <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> sword and hat (now in Vienna) sent in 1568 by Pius V. to <strong>the</strong><br />

Archduke Ferdinand <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Tyrol. Payments to Gio\^ Ant. de<br />

Rossi supra p. 52, n. i) " intagliatore della Zecca," in *Deposit.,<br />

t. 157 (1572 If-xit., p. 16, 19, State Archives, Rome).<br />

* See Kallab, Vasari-Studien, 134 ; Orbaan in fahrbiich der<br />

Preuss. Kunstsamnd., XXXIX. (19x9), Beihett, p. 7.

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