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.374 THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. Chap. XL traits to Giacomo di Bartolommeo Pacchiarotti, 1 whose art, in its expansion, was at one time hard to distinguish from that of Girolamo del Pacchia. Pictorial history soon forgot Fungai, of whom it preserved little more than tra dition; hut it confounded Giacomo with Girolamo, so that the latter ceased altogether to exist; and the praise which he had received from Vasari was supposed to apply to Pacchiarotti. 2 The research of Gaetano Milanesi disen tangled the lives of the two men. Their pictures and those of Fungai still require a vigorous sifting. Guide-books give note of many productions by Fungai, which are preserved in churches and museums; nor is there any difficulty in conceding that they are all by one artist, since they are alike on the spectral model of Mat- teo da Sienna or Benvenuto di Giovanni, and slightly tinged with an imitation of Pinturicchio. They are all feebly and confusedly composed, ill drawn, dull in colour, unrelieved, and generally lifeless. The figures are un natural and incorrect in movement, dressed in broken and angular drapery, exaggerated in length, and perfectly rigid. Amongst the creations of his earlier period, one to which the date of 1500 has been given in books, ex hibits the peculiarities we have enumerated, coupled with greaf^ splendour of gilding and primary colour. It re presents the Coronation, at Sta. Maria de’ Servi, or the SS. Concezione, of Sienna. 3 Better proportioned, but of the same stamp are the Virgin, child, and saints, hanging 1 The commentator above cited states without proofs, though posi tively, that Fungai died in 1516, aged 56 (com. Vas. XI. 173). 2 Vasari speaks of Pacchia in the life of Giovannantonio Bazzi; XI. 151. He is confounded with Pacchiarotti by Della Valle and all the Siennese chroniclers before him (see Lett. San. III. 317 and foil*). Rumohr gives to Pacchia rotti things, the character of which is that of Fungai, (Forschungenll. 212) and suggests the possibility of assistance given by him to Pin turicchio at the Piecolomini libra ry (III. 45). Passavant (Raphael I. 389) evideutly alludes to pictures by Pacchia when speaking of Pacchiarotti. 3 Assigned to Fungai in Taia’s andFaluschi’s Guides, ub. sup. The date is given by Milanesi (com. Vas. XI. 173). The figures are life size, on panel, a caricature of those of Matteo. The angels are reminiscent of Pinturicchio, the Virgin and Christ also somewhat Umbrian.
