Alinari photo] [Sta. Maria Maggiore, Spello
THE ANNUNCIATION: WITH PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST
The frescoes at Spoleto have been covered up for some years, as the chapel of the Duomo in which they are is undergoing restoration. They are described as ruined representations of a “Madonna and Saints,” “God the Father,” and a “Dead Christ.” Vasari does not speak of any of the frescoes at Spello, nor are they noticed by Pascoli and his contemporaries, while Mariotti and Orsini, in the eighteenth century, say very little about them—Vermiglioli and Adamo Rossi first give a full account of them.
Alinari photo] [Sta. Maria Maggiore, Spello
PORTRAIT OF PINTORICCHIO
[CHAPTER VIII]
SIENA AND THE LAST OF ROME
FEW painters of the fifteenth century had received so great a share of Roman patronage as Pintoricchio, and the favour now shown him, which changed the whole of his life, came from a Cardinal who had doubtless become familiar with his Roman work.