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CnAr. I. SPlNET.LO OF AREZZO IT Fope Alexander. The best maintained of these frescos is that of Zani before Alexander, the most animated and best arranged that of the Pope on horseback led by Bar- barossa; and the figures- on horseback as well as the liorses themselves are fine and fairly in motion. Though all the scenes are not equally well distributed, and the defective form and perspective of the architecture makes planes ob lique which should be horizontal, 1 still the general impres sion is favorable because of the excessive speed and bold ness of the execution, a comparatively fair breadth of light and shade, gay, vigorous and transparent colour, sweeping drapery and a general aspect of life and motion. There is in fact a decorative unity in the whole which is effective. But there is still much to reprove in the drawing of the hands, feet and articulations, and in that of many short and thickset figitres. Colour seems to have been obtained by simple means, first of all by systematic rapidity of band, and then by the use of white undergrounds for high flesh lights, warmed up with transparent glazes. The share of Parri in these labours is evidently secondary: because all the frescos are by one hand and in one characteristic style. The latest record respecting Spinello and the labours at Sienna is the 11 th of July 1408, 2 after which perhaps Spi nello retired to Arezzo, where he died, aged ninety two, leaving behind Parri and another son named Forzore to follow the professions of painter and goldsmith. 3 Several pictures by Spinello have been preserved. One, a Madonna amongst saints and angels in the Academy of Arts 4 at Flo rence, originally painted for S. Andrea, of Lucca, is inter esting for the inscription: “IIoc opus pinxit Spinellus Luce Aritio D .1. A. 1391.” It is a damaged, feebly executed pro duction without the fire of the master. A banner painted on both sides for the Brotherhood of S. Sepolcro at Gubbio, now in the hands of the Marcliese llangliiacci, 5 has all the character of the master and is one Soldiers with papal and Venetian flags are about the doge in the left foreground. On the arch in the centre of the chapel, Alexan der in pilgrim’s is garb discovered at Venice. In the vaulting are the symbols of the Evangelists. 1 With the result that figures do not tread on a proper plane. 2 Doc. Sen. Vol. II. p. 33. 3 Vas. Vol. II. p. 198. 4 No. 35. Gallery of old pictures. The Virgin enthroned under guard of angels between S.S. Paulinns John the Baptist, Andrew and Mathew. The two angels to the left of tlie Virgin are gone, those to the right are in adoration. 5 At Gubbio.