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Chap. VI. INGEGNO. 163 This item hardly proves more than that Ingegno had directions and funds for the payment of the painting of the arms on the square and gates of Assisi. But it does not even declare that he was the painter. But we have to deal with a certain*class of pictures assigned to Andrea Alovigi, and we may perceive at once that they bear the impress of Fiorenzo di Lorenzo. Let us examine them. Assist. Inside and above the gate of S. Giacomo, a life size'Virgin in prayer with the infant on her knee in a glory of seraphs floating in clouds above a landscape. The Virgin and infant are similar to those of Fiorenzo di Lorenzo. A low, brown tone, altered by damp, prevails. The fresco is decidedly like one of Fiorenzo’s. Assisi. In a recess of the outer face of the church of S. Andrea is a Virgin holding the infant Christ on her knee. S. Jerom and another saint in the side of the recess. The type of the latter is fair and gen tle , in general appearance like the foregoing. Assisi. Ex-convent of'Benedictine nuns, now delle Mantellucie, via S. Again. In the same manner, but injured, a fresco of the Virgin and child between SS. Francis and Jerom. In the thickness of the recess S. Bernardino and another figure which is all but obliterated; the whole above the portal. We set aside the four sybils in the lower church of Assisi which are proved to be by Dono Doni. Assisi. Arch of S. Antonio leading from the Piazza to Moiano, a fresco, much injured, above the key of the bend, of the Virgin, child and S. Francis, with remains of a landscape similar to the last. Moiano, near Assisi. A small chapel is here in which parts of a Virgin and child on the inner wall, a bishop, S. Francis, and se raphs, in the vaulting, and other pieces on the outer face may still be inspected. These three frescos, from Via S. Agata, arch of S. An tonio, and Moiano, have been transferred to canvass and placed in the commune of Assisi. We have thus a series of ill-preserved fragments re vealing an approach at last to Tiberio of Assisi, and possibly the product of a local craftsman. It may be classed under the name of Ingegno for want of a better. Following the manner of Fiorenzo di Lorenzo further, however, the catalogue may be continued. 11*