the necessities of the subjects they recur, still distantly recall the tenderness which the Gubbians invariably sought to convey: but Ottaviano plainly believed that the reproduction of incidents, so often delineated, required no further stretch of imagination or ingenuity; and he merely repeated the time-honoured arrangements of the Siennese school, in a spirit distantly reminiscent of that of Taddeo Bartoli. The bright harmony of unrelieved colours which may please the beholder at S. Maria of Gubbio, in the absence of other qualities, having dis appeared in the course of years, the skeleton of lean and defective forms alone remains. There is no movement in frames laid out without knowledge of anatomy, nothing but grimace in faces of a poor and sometimes even ignoble type; but coarseness in hands or feet. The draperies are at once broken and ill-cast. Such a talent, as this of Nelli, was ill calculated to create admiration even in the local craftsmen of a petty place like Foligno; nor is it possible that it should have affected to any extent the career of Alunno. But not alone in Foligno; in Assisi, the same level had been attained; and to the right of the entrance, on the outer wall of SS. Antonio e Jacopo, a church in which Pietro d’Antonio and Matteo of Gualdo were afterwards employed, remnants of a Virgin and child adored by groups of faithful under the patronage of SS. Anthony and James, and of a Virgin and angel annun ciate, offer to the spectator traces of the manner of Nelli at the Palace of the Trinci. 1 In the eighteenth century, a number of wallpieces by Ottaviano perished in the changes made to the church of a system of enlarged miniature without definite shadows, and warm tones. The papacy of Sixtus IV th would indicate a very late date for this work; there is ground for sup posing that his name has been added to earlier productions. Fu ture investigation may determine this, especially if a better light is thrown on pieces which it is now very difficult to see. 1 One of them indeed is inscrib ed with a name not unlike his, i. e.: “Martinellus MCCCCXXII die XXVI mense octob.” The church was of old called Sta. Ca- terina.