Pictures in Umbria

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ugino's famous frescoes. A little farther on is the richly-sculptured doorway of the Palazzo Pubblico, and within this is the Pinacoteca, containing a very interesting co

del Tasso; the doors have the date 1483. Near the entrance is the raised throne for the judge; below this are desks and seats for the money-changers, and these are exquisitely carved. One account says that the intarsia designs were furnished by Raffaelle; another tells us that Domenico del Tasso was both designer and executor of this beautiful work. In the

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ance, the Transfiguration and the Adoration of the Magi; Hope of an

ice and Prudence, illustrated below by the figures of Fabi

maining half of the upper wall has figures representing Courage and Temperance. Below the

at the painter should have been accused of greed in the pursuit of his calling, when he considered it necessary to call up on the walls of the Sala so many witnesses to protest against the love of money in others. The

he little Sala, the rich tone of these frescoes is marvellous, and,

yls and children, said to be Raffaelle's, but the

ony of style which, in spite of their individual beauty, wearies one in his Perugian oil pictur

eriority over the rest. It is very curious to remember that these peaceful saintly pictures were painted when dail

polcro, and Benedetto Bonfigli, had established a school of art in Perugia. The lovely head of a Madonna by this rarely found painter, Fiorenzo di Lorenzo, is o

hild; the Blessed Virgin and St. Joseph kneel on either side of Him. Opposite the magi are the ox, and a very wise-looking ass; while a large g

was used for most of the angels. They and smaller figures, the shepherds and others, seen at the openings which reveal landscape o

res by Fra Angelico. The student of early Italian art will find in these galleries abundant material of a most interesting kind. The pictures were form

urrounding country. The old cicerone took much interest in showing us where