Chap. VIII. • BERNARDINO PINTURICCHIO. 293 then probably entered the service of Pandolfo Petrucci, in whose palace he left a series of subjects in fresco. We have seen how these decorations, which were but the continuation of similar ones by Signorelli and Genga, were allowed to fall into neglect, and how the only rem nant of them is the Ulysses and Penelope, or Lucretia and Collatinus, now in possession of Mr. Barker in London. The last authentic picture of Pinturicchio is a beautiful cabinet-miniature of Christ carrying his cross, now in the Palazzo Borromeo at Milan, finished in 1513. In that very year he died, it is said of hunger, at Sienna on the 11 th of December, and was buried in SS. Vin cenzo and Anastasio, now Oratorio della Contrada dell’ Istrice. 1 The following catalogue completes the classification of Pinturicchio’s works. Spello. Ex-church of the Minorites. The Virgin and saints of 1508 has been alluded to in the foregoing life. The Virgin supports the naked child on her knee. He clutches his mother’s dress at the bosom, and casts his right arm round her neck. Two cherubs’ heads and two flying angels in prayer are at her sides. The Virgin’s face is small for her frame. The infant Saviour is long and lean, and strained in attitude. A pleasing mask is that of the angel in the contrada S. Vincenzo at Sien na. Verm. 182. In Oct. (8) of the same year he. sells property to Pan dolfo Petrucci. Com. Yas. V. 280. In 1511 he sells hisChiugi property (Verm. app. XLIV), and buys an other at Sienna (Mariotti 219 and Verm. 182). 1 The only authority for believ ing that Pinturicchio met with an unnatural death is the diary of his cotemporary Tizio of Sienna, who says: “Rumoribus ferebatur, Paf- fum quemdam peditem in foro Se- nensi cum uxore Bernardini com- misceri, nec ab illis ad Bernardi- num segrotantem admissum qtten- dam prater mulierculas quasdam ex vicinis nostris, qu® mihi post- modum retulerunt Bernardinum audivisse querentem se fame de- perire”. See the extr. in Della Valle Lett. San. III. 246. and Verm. app.LXIII. YethiswifeOraniawas not brought to trial for any of fence, and she quietly inherited two thirds of his property, as may be seen from Pinturicchio’s will dated in 1513, and in which he says he is “sanus monte” but “corpore languens”. That he had a quarrel with his wife after making his will seems to result from a codicil of Sept. 13. 1513 in which he reduces her share, hut he revoked the codi cil by another of October 14. (Doc. Sen. III. 62. 4).