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Chap. XII. RAFFAELLINO DEL GARBO 417 In the left transept of S. Spirito at Florence, a Trinity adored by the kneeling SS. Catherine and Mary Magda len, is a carefully handled and gay specimen of the same art, with a tendency in Raffaellino to lengthen the pro portions of the human frame. There are also some pretty things in the predella, representing the Nativity between the Communion of S. Mary of Egypt and the Martyrdom of the Alexandrian saint. 1 But, Raffaellino appears to most advantage in the Gallery of Bei’lin, where one of his most important altarpieces, and two cabinet-pictures are preserved. The first of these, a Virgin and child attended by angels, cherubs, and four saints, is a clear and bril liant tempera executed with great precision in the man ner of Filippino and Fra Filippo, but still displaying the slender forms, the affected movement and expression of del Garbo; 2 the second, a Madonna with the child, and the Baptist accompanied by angels, between SS. Sebas tian and Andrew, is as good; 2 the third, an erect Virgin and child between two angels in a landscape, is the best of the three, and will be found engraved in these pages. The tenderest maternal fondness is imparted to the mother whose cheek rests on the curly head of the Sa viour asleep on her bosom. There is something almost Raphaelesque in the conception of the group. The me lancholy of the Virgin’s face, the flexibility in her atti tude of rest are very winning. The drawing is correct, and the draperies well cast. A happy thought is that of making the angel to the right pause in sounding the pipes that the child may sleep and be undisturbed. The other angel is less successful, being a little forced, af fected, and absent in look, and thus unconnected in a Tempera, wood, figures about half life size, of a soft, but weak grey tone. 1 The Eternal holds a crucifix. Landscape, wood, tempera. 2 Berlin. Museum. No. 87. Tem pera. Two angels support the ar ras at the side of the throne. Lower are two cherubim. The saints are: Nicholas and Dominick erect, Vincent and Peter Martyr kneeling. Distance, a landscape (wood). 3 Berlin. Museum. No. 98. Dis tance, a landscape (wood, tem pera, figures half the fife size). 27 VOL. HI.
