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380 THE FIFTEENTH CENTUEY. Chap. XI. which Pacchiarotti should have changed his style to one more like that of his colleague Girolamo del Pacchia was the son of a Hungarian, who had become famous at the close of the fifteenth century as a founder of cannon. 1 This Hungarian, known as Gio vanni delle Bombarde, married a Siennese girl named Apollonia, who bore him Girolamo, on the 4 th of January 1477. The boy, having lost his father a year after his birth, was educated by his mother, and brought up to the business of an artist. He took to wandering at an early age, and was in 1500 at Rome. An altarpiece which he delivered, in 1508, to the monastery of Ponti- gnano near Sienna, would tell, had it been preserved, what masters Del Pacchia had been studying up to that, time; in the absence of this example, and of others which were produced in 1511, one turns to the .no less authen tic though uninscribed pictures with which he adorned a chapel in S. Spirito and the altar of the Bandinelli at S. Cristoforo, of Sienna. The Coronation of the Virgin at S. Spirito 2 is remark able for the vigour and harmony of its colour, and the breadth and accurate definition of its chiaroscuro. It has all the movement and none of the awkwardness of the Ascension at the Carmine; and is a manifest improvement on the forms usually, given to the human face by the Siennese. The draperies are serpentine in fold instead of being broken as of old. The manner of Raphael is adapted with an originality natural to an independent talent, and the colours are of a thin texture and reddish tone reminiscent of Andrea da Salerno. A couple of angels beneath the principal group are drawn in Raphael- esque movement; and foreshortenings, where they occur, disclose their origin in the same school. 1 The authorities for this and tho following facts and dates are to be found in Milanesi’s com. Vas. XI. 184 and foil 8 , in Doc. Sen. Vol. II arid III, and in Mila- nesi, Sulla Storia Senese, &c. ub. sup. 99 and foil 8 . 2 Wood, arched, figures life size, assigned by Ugurgieri in Della Yalle, Lett. San. III. 316, and others, to Pacchiarotti.