Our Lady is seated, and has the divine Child, who is nude, on her knee. The scene is in a rocky valley. On the left is a man on a white horse and three youthful companions, on the right a group of five persons, two of whom hold golden cups in their hands.
NAPLES, DUOMO.
The Assumption. Said to be dated 1460.
This picture was commissioned, so Vasari says, by Cardinal Oliviero Caraffa, who is represented kneeling to the left.
The Madonna is in a mandorla; two angels above are crowning her, and other angels playing on instruments are around. Below are the apostles and St. Paul, and to the left, the Cardinal with St. Januarius.
I have not seen this picture.
PANICALE, LAGO TRASIMENO, CHURCH OF ST. SEBASTIAN.
Martyrdom of St. Sebastian. Fresco.
The saint is bound to a column which stands on a marble throne in the centre of the pavement of an arched Temple. Four archers are engaged in shooting arrows at the Saint. The Eternal Father appears high above, seated within a circle of cherubs and having on either side a kneeling angel.
On the pedestal is P .... DE CASTRO .... and on the four pillars the date A.D. MDV.