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384 EARLY CHRISTIAN ART. Chap. XIV. ; Of this painter who reduced the second rate manner of Petrus to a third rate manner of his own, a very fair example may be seen in a Virgin and child, angels, and Saints in the sacristy of the cathedral of Urbania near Urbino inscribed: Anno Dhi mille ccc. settimo. Julianus, pictor de Arimino fecit hoc opus, tempore Dhi Clementis . P. P. quinti. This is a picture not esentially different in appearance from those of most Italian productions of the same period at Tolentino, Fabriano, Gualdo or Camerino. 1 The male figures are not without character and animation, the fe males not without grace in costume and head dress. The forms of the hands are regular; the drawing of the whole conscientious, and the draperies not ill lined. The light and transparent colour, though soft, is flat and unrelieved. Julian of Rimini thus had his own peculiar style which may be traced with certainty in the picture of the Aca demy of Faenza attributed to Pace, 2 — one of those taber nacled and pinnacled altarpieces which are so common in the Umbrian school, inclosing no less than twelve subjects or figures, and six medallion half figures of saints or pro phets. The centre represents the Virgin enthroned, above which the crucifixion is depicted, and here the Saviour is of a long attenuated form and some heads are remarkable for absence of all beauty. The saints, in the side niches, are in character like those of Urbania, the best of them a S. Chiara. 3 Inferior to these pictures perhaps because of 1 The Virgin, a feeble and de fective figure, both as regards form and type, sits enthroned with the infant Saviour between four angels waving censers and hold ing up the drapery of the throne. In front, eight figures kneel to the right and left, and in eight pa nels in a double course at the sides, are an equal number of male and female saints, in the following order, beginning from the top to the left, S. Francis receiving the Stigmata, S.S. John the Baptist, John Evangelist, Mary Magdalen, Chiara, Catherine an other female and Lucy. 2 In Pungileoni, Elogio Storico di Giovanni Santi, 8°. Urbino 1822, the reader finds record (p. 47) of one “Giuliano depentore” at Urbino in 1366 and 7. It remains doubtful whether this be the same as the author of the crucifix of 1307. 3 The niches at each side of the centre are 6 in all, containing S.S. Christopher, Chiara, John the Baptist, Elizabeth, Francis, and Louis of France. In the pin nacles, at each side of the cruci fixion, are Christ on the mount, the kiss of Judas, the deposition from the cross and another sub ject.
