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Chap. V. GIOVANNI BOCCATI. 115 a warm tempera, with tones of body and polish like enamel, in which the Virgin and child are enthroned, between two playing angels within a screened recep tacle of stone, round which seraphs stand. S. Dominick and S. Francis each present two kneeling members of the Brotherhood; and they are accompanied by SS. Ambrose and Jerom, Gregory and Augustin. A garland of roses is above the Virgin’s head; the infant allows his hand to be licked by an eager dog which he holds by a leash; and in the distance at the sides, angels are placed in a decoration of vases and festoons, in rear of which trees and flowers show their leaves and blos soms. In a predella are scenes from the Passion. 1 The long-necked, slender waisted figure of Mary with its small hands, all contoured with hair lines at sharp angles, — the angels, are Umbrian in character, and prove the education of Boccati to have been derived from the models of Gubbio and Fabriano, and to have embodied many Siennese ha bits. They also recall another kind of art, that of Bar tolommeo di Tominaso and Alunno, the representatives of the school of Foligno which, by the industry of the latter, assumed an independent position towards the close of the fifteenth century, and took the place of the older ones. This school was remarkable for.its absorption of pecu liarities obtained from Benozzo Gozzoli, who thus, though more humbly, shares with Piero della Francesca the ho nour of introducing the Florentine element into Umbria. ten, to the gall. comm, of Perugia under No. 4. 1 This altarpiece is much in jured. The S. Ambrose, part of S. Jerom, and the whole distance be hind them, are repainted. The Vir gin’s blue mantle and parts of the vestments of other figures are likewise new. The colour is dim med by restoring. The predella, detached from the altarpiece, re presents the Capture (reminiscent of Domenico llartoli), the Crucifi xion (recalling P. della Francesca in some figures), SS. Thomas Aqui nas and Peter martyr. A procession to Calvary is quite in a Siennese character. On the border one reads: “Opus Joins Uochatis de Chame- reno.” On the step of the Virgin’s throne, the date 1437. The central panel three feet one inch high. The predella has also been removed to the gal. com. of Perugia, numb d No.5. 8*