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322 THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. Chap. IX. S. Jacopo, Spagna also laboured, and whilst the apsis is inscribed with the date of 1526, the lateral altar to the left bears that of 1527, at which' date no doubt the S. Sebastian, between SS. Fabian and Roch, be neath a Virgin, child, and angels, was completed. 1 It was not till 1528 that Spagna obtained payment for these frescos. They were however about the last which he painted, and a record of 1533 is preserved in which his widow Santina receives a final balance of one florin for the pictorial decoration of the edifice. It would seem indeed as if he had died before 1530, when Dono Doni finished the altar opposite to that of S. Sebastian, cover ing the space with a Virgin and a S. Anthony of Padua between two saints. 2 ing the two roast cocks to life, the figures are academic. In that to the left where the saint rescues the hanging man, the figures are short in proportions. In the pilas ters are a fine S. Lucy and S. Appollonia, near which on the vanishing faces one reads: “Ano Dni MDXXVI”. 1 The S. Sebastian in this fresco is pleasing, but the Virgin, child, and angels are badly preserved; the blue mantle of the first being repainted, the frame of the second and the glory of cherubs’ heads done afresh. Of the angels at the sides, one (left) has no head, the other is ruined. The lower parts of the SS. Fabian and Roch are restored. As at Gavelli the draw ing is mannered and defective, the touch broad and from a full brush. 2 1526. — Spoleto. S. Jacopo. In nome dmj Amen. Adi ij de Septebre 1526. Mastro Johi pictore fo cofesso liavere receputi fino al piite di s. parte della pintura della trebuna de Sco Jaco i tutto ff. sexanta sei . . . . ff. 66. Adi 21 Octobre 1526. piu ebbe dccti maestro Joani pictore p parte del suo salario ossia p la pintura della capella grande fiorini ventiquatro ff. 24. p la mano de brunoro de Sancto et tomasio deputaro de Sco Jaco. — (hand of administrator). In nome dornj — Adi ij di 7 1>rc 1526. D° fuschino ha pagati ducati uno d’oro promissi p la pintura della tribuna — ff. 2. bolognini 4. (Follow thirty other subscrip tions of the same nature.) Adi 26 de’ Decebre 1527. Ricordo facto adl 26 Decebre come . . i questo di ho receuto fiorini decivotto p coto de la tri buna — Me restano debictore de fiorini dodece et f. Jo scrisse do mo propria Lo Spagna petore. Recoro et memoria fact 0 adl 2 de febraro 1528 come jo Jova so- pradicto lo Spagna ho recevuto da fra'ceso et piacete suo copagno p coto de la capella de Sato sebasti- ano fo (fino) al presete di fioreni tresta (30) et quatro coputate duj some et mezza de mosto (wine) et itranoi (intra noi) p il coto d la ca- pclla do Sato Antonio.