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376 THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. Chap. XI. in the cathedral of Chiusi, 1 and a Madonna amongst saints in the church of Buonconvento. 2 Fungai sometimes as sumes the types and affectation of Perugino, as may be seen in the example lately at the British Institution under his name, 3 and in the Madonna falsely ascribed to Viva- rini at the Kensington Museum. 4 His more usual garb is that with which he appears in the Virgin and child catalogued as by Alunno in the collection of Count Paxil Stroganoff at S. Petersburg. 5 His best and perhaps la test performance is a Christ between SS. Francis and Jerom, the lunette of an altarpiece by Pacchiarotti in the Academy of Sienna. 6 The difference between the lunette and the Madonna with saints below it is not so striking but that both may have been done in the same atelier 1 In the pilasters, the angel anti Virgin annunciate, SS. Lawrence, Catherine, Sebastian and Cliiara. In the predella, four scenes from the lives of the saints, Umbrian in character; — exhibited in the cap- pella del Sacramento. 2 Five arched compartments, Virgin and child, SS. John the Baptist, Peter, Paul and Sebas tian (naked). In the spandrils, heads of cherubs (figures life size, wood). Similar works, an Assump tion, in S. Sebastian, at Buoncon vento, with six scenes from the life of the Virgin, in the predella, the latter like Matteo’s Creation, Virgin and child between SS. John and Mary Magdalen (wood, gold ground), in the Conservato- rio di S.' Maria Maddalena at Sienna; Virgin and child, S. Jerom and another saint in the same place. 3 Round of the Virgin and child (No. 70. Exhibition of 1865), with six heads of winged cherubs flut tering round her head (wood, half life size). Various episodes are in the distant landscape. The low key of Fungai’s tone has been further dimmed by time. 4 From the Solages collection (half length, on gold ground, the child erect, in benediction, on thd Virgin’s lap, and a saint at each side (wood, half life size). The tempera is altered by restoring. 5 The child holds the orb and a bird fast to a string (wood, gold ground). He stands on a cushion, on a parapet, before the half length of the Virgin; somewhat restored, but not without feeling considering its authorship. 6 No. 314. Academy of Sienna. Virgin enthroned between SS.Ono- frio and Bartolommeo (wood). We may note, in passing, as a painter of the rise of the sixteenth cen tury at Sienna a half Umbrian Siennese of a low class, whose Na tivity, No. 189, in the Academy of Sienna, inscribed: “Opus Petri Dominici de Senis M. CCCC. . . .”, is a weak, rosy coloured picture, of careful, but flat treatment. To him may be given the Nativity, No. 183, in the same collection, and a Virgin, child, and saints, No. 182. Andrea di Niccolo’s works are a caricature of the foregoing, as ex. gr. a Crucifixion, No. 190, in the Sienna Academy. There are no tices of his existence between 1477 and 1509, at Sienna, in Doc. Sen., i II. 425, and III. 5. 40 and 296.