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Chap. X. DOMENICO AND ORAZIO ALFANI. 367 the life of S. Anthony, altar frescos attributable to Do menico in S. Antonio Abate at Diruta. 1 A Madonna with two angels playing harp and viol, and two kneeling saints, a panel dated 1521, and signed by Alfani in the cathedral of Citth della Pieve, recalls that of 1518, and is coloured in the flat reddish tone adopted by Andrea da Salerno; 2 it is the best authenticated example amongst those which the artist furnished to the churches of Peru- gino’s birthplace. 3 In the “Virgin, child, and -saints, and angels”, by Domenico in the Gallery of Perugia, the Florentine element is already exhibited. The colour is glossy, yet modelled with great impasto. The figures are free in movement and of fully expanded forms, and they are moulded into a well distributed composition. But whilst one traces the gradual change to a more modern system, the influence of Raphael is still to be noticed in the infant Christ and in some of the saints. 4 It is not till 1532 that the full expansion of the Flor entine style is visible in Domenico’s works. Vasari x says that when Rosso stayed at Perugia he gave Alfani a cartoon for an Adoration, which the latter conveyed are renewed. The head of S. An thony of Padua is injured and some of his frock scaled away. The ground of the upper subject is blue sprinkled with stars. 1 The arched part of the wall is divided into four parts each of which contains a scene from the lifo of S. Anthony (much injured). Below is a statue of S. Anthony, at the sides of which are two painted figures of SS. Sebastian and Roch. There is much life and power in the work which is, no doubt, by Domenico Alfani. 2 The altarpiece (wood, oil, figures life size) is inscribed: “Anno Domini MDXXI. Dominicus Paridis P. Perusinus pinxit”. The kneeling saints at the sides are one in episcopals and Mary Mag dalen. Much of the colour has scaled away. 3 There is also an altarpiece (wood, oil, figures life size) of the Virgin between SS. Bartolommeo, Francis, Louis, and Anthony, in Alfani’s Raphaelesque manner, with much repainting in the dra peries, at S. Francesco of Cittk della Pieve, and a S. Jerom (wood, oil), in S. Agostino of the same place, a mixture of the manner of Alfani and 6. B. Caporali. 4 A foreshortened angel, above the Virgin’s head, throws flowers; and two others hold up the crown. The infant is reversed from that in an altarpiece at the Carmine of Perugia, and from a drawing of Raphael, the original from which that altarpiece is done. The saints about the Virgin are Nicholas, Peter, Paul, and Lucy. On the step of the throne: “MD. XXIIII.” (wood, oil, figures life size).
