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302 THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. Chap. VIII. Sienna. S Spirito. Cappella de' Borghesi. Altarpiece (wood, oil), assigned (Falusclii, Guida 142. Taia, Gnida 111) to Matteo di Gio vanni. Assumption of the Virgin. By the side of the tomb, below the glory, S. Francis and S. Catherine of Sienna, and in front two infant angels. Two seraphs at the side of the glory bear flower pots. In a lunette, the Eternal in benediction in a halo with che rubs’ heads. The Virgin’s face is softly expressive, but the figures generally are feeble, and the colour is dim, washy, and without re lief. The angels in front of the tomb resemble those at the base of the plinths in the cappella Piccolomini. Baldueci is therefore an Umbrian of the school of Pinturicchio. The predella of this picture representing the Virgin with the dead Messiah on her lap, with S. John Evangelist and the Magdalen, S. Francis re ceiving the stigmata, and S. Catherine, is in the same stylo as the altarpiece, and now in Sienna. Academy. No. 213. There are further in the collection: No. 311. Half length of the Virgin and child, between SS. Bernar dino and Catherine. No. 307. An Angel in adoration (small panel). No. 321. Virgin and child between SS. Jerom and Francis. No. 310. 316. 312. 318. The two first, in tempera, figures of Justice and Faith. The two last, in oil, Fortitude and Charity. Sienna. S. Maria Maddalena. Nativity (small), an Umbrian com position on the model of Pinturicchio, of a light colour, and feeble in character, variously assigned to Perugino and Pinturicchio. Same convent. Virgin and child, and youthful Baptist, reminiscent of Pinturicchio, and perhaps by some other of his pupils than Baldueci. Paris. Louvre. Musee Napoleon HI. No. 195. Virgin, child and Saints, classed in the Umbrian school, careful, but feeble tempera, in Balducci’s manner. There is no trace of the influence of Bazzi on Baldueci in all these pieces.
