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Chap. IX. LO SPAGNA. 313 Francis, and Anthony of Padua, looking up as they kneel, are amongst the finest things of Spagna, the latter espe cially full of inspired tenderness. The cast of drapery is excellent, especially in the saints in monkish dress, and the pale yellow flesh-lights are fused with ease into- the reddish stippling of the half-tones and shadows. Yet the failings traceable through the Spineta and Ancajani altar- pieces upwards, are not entirely absent. 1 More curious, however, and perhaps of greater interest are the frescos in the church of the Madonna delle La- grime at Trevi. In a lunette, S. Ubaldo in benediction sits between rows of kneeling monks, whilst an angel holds up an open book out of which he reads, and others attend with his crozier and mitre. In the Deposition from the Cross, beneath the lunette, as in the chief personage of the lunette itself, a distant reminiscence of Raphael may be discovered. The Deposition is taken from that in the Borghese palace at Rome, or from one of the nume rous drawings sketched previous to its completion. But at Trevi the composition is transferred to the wall in Spagna’s manner, the figures being slender and square, and earned out with his cold and unwearying diligence. 2 On the pilasters of the altar, two canvasses contain S. Catherine of Alexandria/ and S. Cecilia, in natural proportions, both nicely posed and drawn, -with a fair share of elegance and refinement in their appearance. 3 1 On the lower edge of the fresco is the date: “MDXII”, the last cipher abraded. Part of the cheek and three fingers of one of the hands in the Virgin are gone. 2 These frescos are injured by a flaw running down the centre of the wall. Part of the angel hold ing the crozier, has scaled away with the lime of the wall. The head of Christ in the Entomb- I ment is rubbed off and retouch ed, and that of a spectator nearest to the man carrying the Saviour’s body at the shoulders, is new. The Virgin on the left is in great part damaged. Indeed the whole of the left side of the wall is in a had condition. A saint is painted in a niche to the left of the Entomb ment, a S. Joseph in another niche to the right. Above are two half length prophets in medallions on mosaic ground. 3 S. Catherine holds a hook and a sword. Her face is a little vul gar. The blue background is re painted and opaque. The S. Ceci lia plays the pipes. Her head is neatly attired, and the feet and hands are better drawn than usual. On the ground are a flute, tambou rine, and music. The flesh is not so well preserved as in the S. Cathe-