_Paolo Morando_ (Veronese: 1486-1522).
Paolo Morando, otherwise known as Cavazzola (his father was
Taddeo Cavazzola di Jacobi di Morando), was a pupil of Morone
(see 285). He "infused a higher life, and a fine system of
colouring into the Veronese School, making thus a great advance
upon his contemporaries, and preparing the way for Paul
Veronese.... He shows, as Dr. Burckhardt has justly observed,
'a marvellous transition from the realism of the fifteenth
century to the noble free character of the sixteenth, not to an
empty idealism'" (_Layard_, i. 270). His masterpieces are still
in his native Verona, and nowhere else, except in the National
Gallery, can he be studied.
St. Roch is the patron of the sick and plague-stricken. The legend
says that he left great riches to travel as a pilgrim to Rome, where
he tended those sick of the plague, and by his intercession effected
miraculous cures. Through many cities he laboured thus, until at last
in Piacenza he became himself plague-stricken, and with a horrible
ulcer in his thigh he was turned out into a lonely wood. He has here
laid aside his pilgrim staff and hung his hat upon it, and prepared
himself to die, when an angel appears to him and drops a fresh rose on
his path. There is no rose without a thorn, and no thorn in a saint's
crown without a rose. He bares his thigh to show his wound to the
angel, who (says the legend) dressed it for him, whilst his little dog
miraculously brought him every morning a loaf of bread.