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like him, at Vado in the duchy of Urbino, 

 in the year 1550. Frederic was carried by 

 his parents to Rome, where their elder fon 

 was then employed : the younger improved 

 fo much in the fpace of fix years, tliat with- 

 out his brother's afTiftance he painted a pic- 

 ture of Helicon and the Mufes for a Roman 

 nobleman , and executed greateft part of a 

 chapel in which his brother was engaged. 

 They worked for fome time in concert ; 

 and being at Florence painted in four days 

 the whole hiflory of the PafTion which was 

 befpoken in a hurry for the decoration of a 

 church on Eafter funday. Taddeo dying 

 at the age of thirty- fevcn, Frederic finifbed 

 his imperfect works, among which were the 

 paintings at the magnificent palace then 

 lately built at Caprarola by cardinal Farnefe. 

 His picture in diftemper of Calumny, bor- 

 rowed from the defcription of one painted 

 by Apelles, was fuppofed a tacit fatire on 

 that cardinal, with whom he had qunrrelled 

 on fome deficience of payment. Zucchero's 

 temper feems by another inftance to have 

 been pretty ftrongly tindured with refent-^ 

 ment ; while he was employed by Gre- 

 gory XI I L to paint the Pauline chapej in 



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