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Chap. V. NICCOLO ALUNNO. 133 Foligno. S. Bartolommeo (fuov cli). — A Martyrdom of S. Bartho lomew by flaying. In this convent church is also a poor Alunno damaged by repainting. La Bastia. — In the church of this place which lies between Assisi and Perugia, is an enthroned Virgin and child, surrounded by angels. Various fruits and a vase of cherries are on the foreground. SS. Sebastian and Michael Archangel are in attendance. The lunettes contain the Eternal and seraphs, the Virgin and angel annunciate. In the predella, Christ, half in the sepulchre, is em braced by the Virgin, whilst his hand is kissed by S. John Evan gelist. Two angels in lamentation are to the left, one grimacing to the left, holds a light. David, Zachariah, Mica (with goggles), a saint, Isaiah, and Daniel are divided on each side of the Pieta. The enthroned Virgin’s attitude is kindly and pleasing. The angel and Virgin annunciate are amongst the best by Alunno, with some thing reminiscent of Giovanni Santi. Much colour has scaled away, and the predella is injured. The general tone of what remains is warm in lights, cold in shadows. On the middle border is the inscription: “Hopus Nicolai Fulginatis 1499.” and on the right plinth one reads in a cartouche: “Questa cona la fatta fare la paternete de don Beningnio de Ser Marino de Spiello piuano de Sco Angilo de la Bastia p l’anima sua et p sua devotione”. A similar cartouche on the opposite plinth is illegible. Bologna gallery. Standard. On one face is the Annunciation with the Eternal above, amongst angels, conceived in the spirit of that by Signorelli at Volterra, or of Santi at Milan. The angel seems to run and betrays all the defects of Alunno. On the obverse are the enthroned Madonna and child over whose heads the Eternal suspends a crown. This is signed: “Hopus Nicolai de ” It has been suspected to be due to one “Deliberatore”. The latter word having been formed out of the final and now ab raded part of the inscription. Liberators has probably been read in error for Foligno. At all events the character of the painting makes it obvious to be an Alunno. 1 Assisi. — Exchurch of S. Lorenzo al Monte, near Rocca. Here, in a ruined edifice, is a tabernacle, rudely painted, in the Umbrian style, but probably not by Alunno. In it is a Virgin and child, and S. Francis with the Eternal in the vaulting, and a saint in a niche. Beneath S. Francis are small kneeling personages. The following are remnants of a signature: “. . . chola pictor”. Louvre. Musee Napolion 111. — Ex Campana gallery. No. 111.: a standard representing a Virgin of Mercy with the faithful under 1 There is no picture in exis- I and that of Cagli which Lanzi tence, signed Niccolo Deliberatore | mentions, is not to be found.