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Chap. IV. OTTAVIANO NELLI. 93 S. Piero of Gubbio. Amongst these were the subjects adorning the chapel of Agnolo dei Carnevaii, the pay ments for which in 1439 are still preserved. 1 Nelli did not long survive; and nothing is known of him after 1444. 2 To dwell at any length on the minor Gubbians, who were his cotemporaries or followers, would be of slight interest. His brother Tomasuccio is the author of a S. Vincent, 3 and subordinate incidents in. S. Domenico of Gubbio, where better proportion, fairer outlines, and a more chastened fancy in the choice of dress indicate a nearer connection with Gentile da Fabriano than is to be found in Nelli. Jacopo Bedi, who (1458) decorated the Cappella Panfili in the cemetery of S. Secondo, rudely continued Ottavi- ano's style, without attempting to rival his carefulness or gay key of tones. 4 Equally feeble, but more true to the older models of Taddeo Bartoli, Giovanni Pintali exhibits himself in an Ascension and Coronation of the Virgin on the walls 1 Gualandi, Mem. ub. sup. Ser. 5. 125. 6. Buonfatti ub. Sup. 24. 2 Two little pieces, a circumci sion and an allegory of S. Francis wedded to poverty, are preserved in tlie ninth press of the Museo Cristiano at liome, and bear the impress of Nelli’s hand; they are at all events of the Umbrian school of that time. A public record with reference to the transfer of a tenement in 1444 includes Ottaviano’s name. Bee Buonfatti, ub. sup. p. 24. He died leaving all his property to Marte di Pompeo, adopted in 1442, after all hope of children from his wife Baldina di Bartolello had been abandoned. 3 This panel was ordered by one Giannicculo di Cristoforo (Buon fatti, ub. sup. 13J. The S. Vincent, erect in benediction, is attended by angels who support his cloak, with saints and angels at his sides (gold ground); whilst the Eternal amidst seraphs appears above. On the basement is a miracle in mono chrome. Originally a tempera, this piece had been much repainted in oil. A picture in oil of Christ in S. Felicissimo, outside Gubbio, is not like the S. Vincent in manner. 4 Four doctors of the church in a ceiling, and four Evangelists in monochrome in the lunettes, the whole more feebly handled than the series of S. Augustin in S.Agos- tino. The architecture and orna ment are bad, the draperies me chanically lined, the colour red. On a card: “In nomine Uni amen, anno Dm Millesimo quatroeente- simo quinquagesimo octavo, tem pore Dili Pii Papae secundi anno primo sui pontificatus die septima mensis septembris. Jacopus pin- xit.” A Virgin by him in S. M. dei Bianclii, at Gubbio, is gone (Buon fatti, ub. sup. 14. 25).