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Chap. I. LUCA SIGNORELLI. 33 the diocese of Spoleto, by the brethren of the church of S. Maria. 1 Vasari alludes to others in the fortress of Perugia; 2 and we learn from the will of Giambattista Caporali, dated July 27 th 1563, that Maso was witness to that instrument. 3 In the same year, a Tri nity with Saints by him, was placed on an altar in S. Francesco of Perugia (now missing), 4 and in 1559 he died. 5 Papacello’s was a kindred spirit, as regards manner and execution, to that of Francesco Signorelli, a nephew of Luca, 6 who may have helped him to some extent in the Chiesa del Gesu at Cortona. His nearest approach to the manner of his uncle is in a some what damaged round of the Virgin, child, and saints in the Palazzo del Comune at Cortona, and in an Incredulity of S. Thomas (injured and feeble) in the choir of the Duomo. In the Monastery church of the Trinita at Cortona, a picture is preserved of which it is doubtful whether it be by Francesco or by Don Bartolommeo della Gatta. The subject is, S. Michael weighing the souls, and S. Benedict at the side of a tomb, behind which the Virgin sits enthroned, in prayer, and surrounded by angels. The long lean figures are coloured with cold tones shadowed in bluish green. A Conception in the choir of S. Francesco at Gubbio, in the style of the foregoing, boars the signature: “Franeiscus de Signorellis de Cortona pingebat”. The drawing is defective, the draperies are festooned, the colour is dull and black in shadow; and the arrange ment of the personages betrays an absence of perspective science. We may give to Francesco a church standard in the sacristy of the brotherhood of S. Giovanni decollato at Citth di Castello, under the name of Pinturiccliio, painted on both sides, and representing on one, S. John the Baptist, and episodes of his life in a distance, on the other the Baptism of Christ. 7 In the same character as the above, a Tiberius Gracchus, on a pedestal, killing a dragon with a lance, and incidental episodes in a landscape, No. 49. Gallery of Prince Esterhazy at Vienna — assigned to Pinturicchio. A Virgin and child between S. Sebastian and S. Roch, in S. M. del Calcinaio near Cortona, is said by local authorities to have been by Antonio, a son of Luca Signorelli, but it is now not forthcoming. 8 Another workman of the school is one whose coarse Madonna and saints in the sacristy of S. Girolamo al Seminario in Citta di Castello is signed: “Hoc opus fecit Johes Bta 1492”. A predella 1 Mario t ti Lett. Pitt. ub. s u p. p. 239 note . . 2 Vas. XI. 13, destroyed in 1818. 3 Mariotti. Lett. Pitt. ub. sup. 238. 4 lb. ib. 5 At Perugia — see copy of the register in Vas. VI. not c t o p. 146. VOL. III. 6 (Ib.)See for Francesco, Manni’s Signorelli and excerpts in note to Vas. (VI. 148). 7 Vermiglioli p. 79. gives this to Pinturicchio. 6 Pinucci. ub. sup. 3