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THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. Chap. VI. 166 A more real apparition in the history of Umbro-Perugian art than Ingegno is Lodovico Angeli, who was registered in the guild of his native place in 1481 and 1506, 1 whose performances betray a positive mediocrity, yet at the same time the education of Bonfigli. Judging from a canvass bearing his signature and the date of 1489, we should add to the pieces of which he may be called the author, a panel in S. Pietro of Perugia representing the Virgin embracing the corpse of the Redeemer, attended by S. Jeroin, seated at a bench with his lion by him, and an erect figure of S. Leonardo. An angel above the principal group recalls, and seems copied from, one by Benozzo Gozzoli. The nude of Christ is wooden, lean, and defective, the draw ing wiry and unsound, the tempera hard, vitrous, and of a leaden hue. On the border one reads: “Anno Domini Miliesimo CCCCLXVII1I.” This is one of the few things attributed without authority to Bonfigli. The style is not his, but a poor mixture of it with that of Fiorenzo , a mixture observable in the following: Perugia. S. Simone. A panel dated 1487. Perugia. Duomo. Cloth, tempera representing Christ erect (of life size) in benediction, between a female saint and Anthony the abbot, SS. Jerom and Francis. On the lower border is the inscrip tion : “A. D. MCCCCLXXXVIIII Lodovicus Angioli fecit”, of feeble character and poor type; the figures are cold in tone and laid in with a hard spare vehicle. Frequent folds mark the draperies. Perugia Gallery. No. 15. Styled Fiorenzo. Panels with half lengths of SS. Dignamerita, Anthony the abbot, and Catherine, on gold ground, a little less defective than the foregoing, remniscent of the Mantegnesque, possibly by Lodovico. Berlin Museum. No. 137. A Virgin and child not without merit (but see antea Alunno). Corciano. S. Francesco. An approach to the method of Lodo vico, is apparent in a very rude panel here of the Virgin and child, between SS. Jerom and Francis, Anthony and S. Mary Magdalen attended by angels, at all events this is a cross between Bonfigli and Fiorenzo. 1 Mariotti, Lett. Per. 85.
