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Chap. X. GIOVANNI BATTISTA CAPORALI. 361 heavier build than was usual with him. In groups of soldiers to the right there are figures imitating those of Piero della Francesca and Signorelli. To the left, the nudes of men raising the cross recall Alunno, Signorelli, Pinturicchio. As to colour, the injured condition of the frescos preclude criticism. It is however possible that they should have been carried out in a great measure by such a man as the younger Caporali. 1 There is a Virgin and saints in S. Girolamo al Se- minario at Citta di Castello, signed: “Hoc opus fecit Jobes Bta 1492.” It seems the school-work of a man who had been with Signorelli. We inquire whether this can be Caporali. 2 In S. Salvatore, about a mile distant from Panicale, the apse still contains remnants of a Christ in majesty be tween SS. John the Baptist and Peter. Their forms, features and expression, the way in which they are designed, draped and coloured, are a modernized adap tation of the paltry manner of Bartolommeo Caporali at Castiglione del Lago; and the more likely to be by Gio vanni Battista because they are carried out with the tricky boldness of the decorations at the Villa Passerini near Cortona. 3 The same hand, bolder, freer and more closely follow ing Signorelli, yet still with something of Perugino and Raphael, seems to have executed the Nativity and its . lunette of the Eternal in different parts of the Duomo of Panicale. 4 The final expansion of the same style, altered by recollections of Giulio Romano and Michael Angelo, may be found in the florid handling of sixteen 1 The general tone of these in jured frescos is yellow and verde, with shadows of a coppery red. . The distant landscapes in the scenes from the legend of S. Helen are very heavy. The Eternal’s be- wigged head looks aged and muffled in clothes after Bonfigli’s fashion. (See also antea, Anto- niasso, p. 169.) 2 See antea, school of Signorelli, p. 33. 3 The colour is a flat dull red, but freely and slightly handled. The landscape behind the throne is retouched. . 4 Wood, oil. The principal panel on an altar to the left as you en ter the Duomo, and the lunette in the sacristy.