_Girolamo da Santa Croce_ (Venetian: painted 1520-1550).
Girolamo--a relation probably of Francesco Rizo, also of Santa
Croce (a village near Bergamo)--was one of the weaker followers
of Giovanni Bellini. Morelli mentions, as a sign by which
Girolamo's pictures, which are frequently met with in North
Italian galleries, may often be recognised, that "he introduced
a parrot whenever the subject he was treating would allow it,
just as Paolo Farinato used to put a snail into his paintings
as a sort of mark."
These two panels were formerly the doors of an altar-piece.