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Chap. X. BARTOLOMMEO CAPORALI. 359 with ordinary labours. 1 He furnished pennons for the magistrates of Perugia in 1472, 2 and contracted for an altarpiece in a chapel at S. Lorenzo in 1477. 3 He was commissioned to deliver a Madonna in 1487 for the church of S. Maria Maddalena at Castiglione del Lago/ 1 and in 1499, he and Fiorenzo valued a picture by Manni. 5 The only specimen of his skill that has any claims to authen ticity is that of 1487, the several parts of which are pre served in the casa parocchiale at Castiglione del Lago; consisting of a half length Virgin and child, SS. Mary Magdalen, Anthony the abbot, Roch, and four busts of angels. They are rough distempers in which some con ventional affectation of grace remains, though the figures are drawn with wiry and broken outlines in a coarse and incorrect style recalling Fiorenzo and Benozzo Goz- zoli, and coloured in raw and sharply contrasted tints. 6 They are akin to pieces assignable to him in competition with Lodovico de Angelis; 7 resembling a mutilated fresco removed from S. Giuliana to the gallery of Perugia, 8 a panel of 1485 at Ravenna, 6 or a Virgin and child dated 1484, in the gallery of Naples. 16 It would be justifiable, indeed, to neglect such poor creations, were it not of ' He is said by Mariotti (Lett, ub. sup. 82) to have been free of the Perugian guild in 1442; but this is possibly a mistake or a mis print. 2 lb. ib. ib. 3 Ib. ib. ib. 4 Ib. ib. ib. 9 Ib. ib. ib. 6 All on gold ground, and the distemper hatched as usual over verde ground. The infant, erect on the Virgin’s lap, is draped at the hip, gives the blessing, and holds an orb in his left. The Magdalen is partly injured (right side of head). S. Anthony’s is a vulgar face without brow (large flaw in the beard). There is something grotesque in the air of the S. Se bastian. The angels are less feeble. Mariotti gives the follow ing inscription which is no longer to be seen: “Pixit Bartholomeus Caporalis de Perusio, questa ope ra, ano facto fare e cacciadore de Castiglione de Lago. A. D. M.CCCCLXXXVII”. (Lett. 83—4.) 7 No. 15. Gallery of Perugia. Subject: SS. Margaret, Anthony and Catherine (antea in Fiorenzo, note to p. 166), and Virgin, child, and saints at Corciano. 8 Now No. 100. Gallery of Peru gia (antea in Fiorenzo, note to p. 156). 9 Triptych, of the Virgin and child between S. Peter and S. Paul (see antea in Fiorenzo, notes to p. 160). 10 No. 106. Gallery of Naples. (Wood, tempera, on gold ground.) The Virgin holds the child erect before her, on a parapet. With her left she caresses a bird. The