The Palace and Park by Phillips, Forbes, Latham, Owen, Scharf, and Shenton

[Born at Garofalo, 1481. Died at Ferrara, in Italy, 1559. Aged 78.] A distinguished painter of the Ferrarese school. The sight of Raffaelle’s works, in the Sistine Chapel, determined him to follow art, and he became a friend of the great artist himself, though in style most unlike him--brilliant but mannered. On festival days it was his custom to work without payment at a convent in Ferrara, “for the love of God.” Blind for the last few years of his life--cheerful in disposition, and resigned under affliction. [By Massimiliano Laboureur. In the Louvre are two portraits said to be of Garofalo, but they are of doubtful authenticity. This bust is probably done from a picture.]