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Chai>. V; LORENZO DA S. SEVERINO. 113 Crivelli, whose productions, indeed, fill most of the cities in this part of the peninsula, and, in spite of their short comings , they embody some of the religious sentiment of Alunno. In other examples of the manner of Lo renzo “the Second”, as the signature on the “Marriage” at the National Gallery authorizes us to call him, we find Alunno not only imitated, but caricatured; and this is the case in a Virgin and child at S. Agostino of S. Severino, 1 a Conception in the Brotherhood of S. Fran cesco at Matellica, 2 a Madonna and holy attendants in the church of S. Francesco, 3 and in two couples of saints at S. Theresa of the same place. 4 The worst thing of this kind is a grotesque Meeting of Anna and Joachim in the Duomo at Nocera. 5 This list of third-rates may be considered unnecessarily complete if we add to it a Madonna of the most repulsive aspect 1 This picture on gold ground is in the vestibule of the church named in the text. Its figures are life size. It represents the throned Virgin and child attended by an gels, between S. John the Baptist and a bishop (the Virgin’s blue dress damaged). The whole is painted in a slight water colour, recalling the manner of Alunno. 2 S. Anna holds two puppets on her knees intended for the infant Virgin, and Christ. At her sides are SS. Sebastian and Roeli; above, the Ecce Homo between half lengths of SS. Michael and Domi nick, very much injured and split vertically, much colour scaled and the Virgin’s dress new. 3 The Virgin and child with four angels, one of whom gives llow- ers to the babe , between SS. Fran cis and Bernardino. In each pilas ter at the sides are two half- lengths of saints and an angel. Four incidents are depicted in the predella the outside panels of which each contain a half length figure in prayer. This piece is a mixture of the manner of Lorenzo and Alunno, better preserved than the foregoing. VOL. III. 4 Here are SS. Severino and Catherine with the prophet Daniel above. The Baptist conversing with a spectacled monk and Eli jah (gold ground, all but life size). 5 Meeting of Anna and Joachim. Above, the Eternal, the Virgin and two angels. In the frame are half lengths of saints. There are records proving that Lorenzo of S. Severino painted an altarpiece at Monte Milone in 149G. The picture, according to Ricci, re presented S. Anthony of Padua, the Virgin and child, and angels. It was signed: Lauret Sevmi A. S. and was dated as above (Ricci, Mem. ub. sup. I. 202). A note in the same author refers to a da maged Virgin between two saints in episcopals in S. Francesco delle Scale in Ancona signed with the fragmentary words: “. . . enzo Se- verin .... feci . . . M.. . . 81.” Re cords also exist which show that Lorenzo painted a “Justice” in the town Hall of S. Severino in 1478, arms at the Mercato gate in 1481, and a figure of the Beato Jacopo della Marca in 1482 (Ricci l mem. II. 130). 8