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332 THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. Chap. IX, kind is in the last chapel to the right in S. Niccolo itself; a large piece that has been subjected to no restoring though it is injured by dust. The Virgin with the child in glory is adored by several persons kneeling in a land scape between two erect saints of good and grand Ra- phaelesque outline. 1 In later works, for instance in the Coronation of the Virgin of 1541 at the Annunziata outside Norcia, Siculo merely imitates with slight variation the arrangement of Spagna in the altarpieces of Todi and Trevi. 2 In the Duomo of Spoleto the figures on the stalls of the winter choir seem feeble ones of Jacopo; 3 and in the parish church of Ferentillo, two chapels the walls of which are covered with frescos, dated severally 1540 and 1557, 1 The Virgin is seated on a cloud and holds the white drapery of the infant with her right. There are cherubs in the cloud. The figures are life size (wood, oil). 2 The colour and handling of this work are a little feeble. The predella plinths contain the Vir gin and the angel annunciate, the predella itself SS. Jerom and Francis. On a “eartellino”, to the right of the principal panel, one reads: “Anno domini nostri Jesu Christi millesimo quingentesimo quadragesimo primo, die vero vi- gesimo Martii. Jacobus Siculus faciebat”. In this church, at the altar of S. Elisabeth, are a Virgin, child and several saints, feebly shadow ed, of a light rosy tone, the figu res ill-draped as one finds them in some of Tamagni’s pictures at S. Gimignano. In the predella, the angel and Virgin annunciate and Christ in the tomb. In the church del Rosario at Norcia is an As sumption (wood, oil) by a student of Spagna’s manner, of a hard and dull yellowish colour. The angels Bounding instruments are like si milar ones by Cola dell’ Amatrice, The Virgin is most like the crea tions of Spagna. At Bettona, on the high altar of S. Antonio of the Minorites, is a canvass of the Virgin and child attended by angels like those in Spagna’s frescos at S. Jacopo of Spoleto. Below are kneeling saints, amongst whom SS. Crispoldo, Francis, Jerom. Distance, a city. On, the predella, portraits of the donors and the following inscrip tion: “pro lascita Juliani Aqui- lini AD. M.D Dona Ciancia ejus uxor fecit fieri XLVII (1547). This is a feeble piece in the style of the Norcia Coronation, and seems done by assistants. In the same class one might name the frescos of SS. Agata and Barbara, and the Assumption, already noted in the monastery della Stella, near Spoleto (see antea, Spagna). 3 In the winter choir is a picture on gold ground assigned to Spa gna, and representing a Pope giv ing a book to the infant Christ seated in front of the picture. The Virgin is in rear, and to the right is a saint (repainted). This is not a picture by Spagna, but a work of the sixteenth century, due per haps to the hand of Bernardino Campilius (see postea).