the same church. 1 Both pieces are characterise of the period. They are painted with slight transparent colour. The figures are fairly drawn, in good proportion, and easy motion; but the old carefulness of the master is ob viously giving way to a neglectful facility. We now find Perugino entering anew into negotiations with the friars of S. Agostino of Perugia, for whose con vent he had promised ten years before to deliver an al- tarpiece; 2 but though the vast complex of this work occupied him much till 1514, it was left unfinished for the sake of other commissions at Citta della Pieve. A feeble Virgin in glory, adored by SS. Protasius, Peter, Paul, and Gervasius, was then completed for the prior of the church of S. Gervasio in Perugino’s native town, 3 together with an enthroned S. Anthony the abbot, between SS. Paul and Macarius, and an Eternal in a lunette, a fresco in S. Antonio, since detached from the 1 The Inscription on the canvass runs: “Boto de Maraglia do Pe- roga. quando fo pregione de Fran- ciose eho fo adi XI de febraio MDXII. Petrus pinxit de castro Plehis”. The surface is now dis coloured and washy, the sky bare to the thread. The lower part of the legs (incased in red hose) of Boto is gone. In the Virgin of Mercy there is nature and truth in the action of Mary, youthful character in S. Manno. S. Jerom kneels with his arms across. The male patron on The left foreground is aged and dressed in grey, with a cap of the same colour. A -female in black kneels behind S. Jerom. Two splits cut, severally, the Virgin and S. Jerom vertically in half. The blue mantle of the former is partly in its old state, but dimmed by time. The red tunic is repainted, the heads of the Virgin and of the two saints are injured. Of two angels in flight above the Virgin, one is partially damaged; and some of the sky is renewed. The base of the panel (oil), (6*( 4 foot by 4'/ 2 ) is repainted. 2 A note of the 30 th of March 1512 in Pefugino’s own hand, and marked by his usual ignorance of spelling and grammar is preserved. It is one of those discovered at Citta della Pieve. Its tenor is a request to the prior of S.' Agostino to deliver a sack of grain on a re ceipt from the “garzone” Barto lommeo. See the original facsimile in Mezzanotte, ub. sup. p. 300. 3 Two angels in flight are in prayer at the sides of the glory of cherubs’ heads that surround the Virgin. The SS. Protasius and Gervasius carry flags bearing the arms of Citta della Pieve. On a 'wall behind the four saints, one reads: “Petrus Cristofori Vauu- tii de Castro I’lebis pinxit. MD.XII.I.” Tavola oil, now in Duomo at Citta della Pieve, or dered in 1513 by Marchisino Cris- tophori Manni prior of S. Gervasio and others to be finished within a year, for 120 flor. of eleven bo- lognini (Orsini Vita ub. sup. p. 122).
