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344 THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY- Chap. X. the sake of history. 1 The latest dates connected with Tiberio are of 1521 and 1524. In 1521, Fiorenzo and he appraise for Giacomo di Ghcrardo of Citta della Pieve. 2 In 1524, he receives payment for the arms of Clement the Seventh, on some monument at Assisi. 3 Three authentic pictures by Sinibaldo Ibi mark him as one of the feeblest of the followers of the Perugi- nesque school, in the beginning of the sixteenth century. At Gubbio, where he was in company with Orlando of Perugia, 4 he finished the Virgin and child between SS. Sebastian and Ubaldo, in 1507, for one of the cathedral altars. Without any powers to justify his pretensions, he affects to rival the grace of Pinturicchio, and the tender- another hand than that already I described near the altar. Close to the door facing the latter, one reads: “Hoc opus gratia Dei con- sumatu fuit AD. MCCCCCXV. . .” Mezzanotte gives the date as 1518 and adds the name: “ Tiberius de Assisis pinxit,” which is now absent. (Life of Perugino, p. 237.) The person who painted the portion here alluded to, is obviously Tiberio;— who chose for subjects: 1. the Preaching of S. Francis and Pub lication of the Indulgence; 2. S. Francis in the midst of roses be fore a Pope and his suite of cardi nals; 3. Christ and the Virgin in glory, and S. Francis below, offer ing roses at an altar; 4. S. Fran cis naked amongst thorns (lower part new); 5. S. Francis between two angels (much injured). A lu nette above the altar, with S. Francis and his companions, seems also by Tiberio as well as an Eter nal (injured) in the ceiling. 1 In the cappella S. Antonio at S. Francesco of Assisi is an altar- piece of the Crucifixion, four wait ing angels, SS. Liberius (?), An thony the abbot, Francis and Chi- ara, a flat and wire drawn picture by Tiberio (figures life size). In the gallery of Perugia, two Cruci fixes (No. 205. 208) are classed as j ! productions of the fifteenth cen tury, and are probably by Tiberio. Eight lunettes with scenes from the life of the Virgin in S. Anna of Foligno seem by the same hand as well as several frescos on the walls of the church of S. Simone, on the road to Bettona. Mariotti mentions a Nativity and a Majesty signed: “Tiberius de Assisis p. p. MD XVIII”, near Murelli, out side the suburbs of Perugia (Lett, ub. sup. 209—10). 2 In this record he is called Ti berius Diotalevi de Assisis. Ma riotti, ub. sup. 210. 3 This notice is taken from a sketch of the life of Dono Doni in Arcliivio stor. ub. sup. ser. 3. No. 40. Oct. 1865, by Antonio Cristo- fani. From the same source we learn that Tiberio’s brother Dio- sebio was also a painter. 4 Orlando is noticed as the com panion of Sinibaldo Ibi at Gubbio in a register of expenses of the fraternity of S. M. de’ Laici(Libro di Amministrazione. 1504 to 1509. p. 91). In the “Libro delle Refor- mazione del Comune di Gubbio, 1502 to 1506. p. 106” Orlando’s re ception of the right of city atGub- bio is registered (see antea as to a banner in S. Croce, and in Pintu- J ricchio, as to a Nativity in the | Duomo of Gubbio).
