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Chap. I. SPINELLO OF AREZZO 9 one in S. Trinita and three altarpieces for the church of S. Apostolo, the church of S. Lucia di Bardi and the chapel of the Peruzzi in S. Croce. 1 Bottari was able to note that the frescos in S. Maria Maggiore were painted in verdaccio or dead colour, and were going to ruin. 2 They had been whitewashed in Richa’s time, 3 and are lost to the present generation, like those of the Carmine, S. Lucia, and S. Croce. Recalled to Arezzo by his fellow citizens, Spinello de monstrated his powers of rapid execution in almost all the churches of the city and its vicinity. He painted in 1361, the picture of the high altar in the Abbey of the Camaldoles in Casentino; 4 and, between that date and 1384, when after the sack of the town, he took refuge in Florence, 5 he attended to commissions of the most extensive nature for frescos and altarpieces. 6 Besides these which have perished, he executed other works of no inconsiderable kind. With success and not without grace, he painted the annunciation on an altar to the right as one enters the church of S. Francesco, 7 arranging the figures with taste, and expressing, in the angel especially, a fair amount of religious feeling. Near these pictures, which a restorer has somewhat damaged, he painted frescos on the wall between the chapel and the belfry, traces of which have recently been recovered from whitewash, a figure of a bishop and of one carrying an infant still revealing his style. 8 In the bell room of the same church Spinello 1 Vasari (Vol. II. p. 186—7) says with reference to the choir of S. Maria Maggiore that Spi nello painted it for Barone Cap- pelli; but this is probably an error as the patronage of the high altar was only obtained by Barone’s son in 1318. (Vide Rich a. Vol.III. p. 282.) 2 Bottari, in notes to Vasari. Vol. II. p. 186. 3 Richa, Chiese. Vol. III. p. 280. 4 Vas. Vol. II. p. 189. 5 Ibid. Vol. II. p. 194. 6 In the Duomo Vecchio and the Pieve. Ibid. p. 187—9; in S. Lau- rentino, theCompagnia della Nun- ziata, S.S. Marco, Giustino, Lo renzo and the Spedaletto. Ibid, p. 192—3. 7 In the chapel of Messer Giu- liano Baceio. Vas. Vol. II. p. 188. 8 Vas. Vol. II. p. 188, mentions these, and besides, paintings in the Cappella de’ Marsuppini, re presenting Pope Ilonorius eon-
