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MIDDLE PERIOD
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a man of mobile temper, gesticulating with his
badly drawn right hand, and clad in a pale crimson
tunic and a brownish yellow mantle—an unconven-
tional and beautiful combination of colour ; the
latter saint, firm, calm and resolute, his right hand
resting steadily on his large sword. To the left of
St. Peter stands St. John the Baptist, and at the
corresponding place on the other side the handsome
young St. Sebastian, a fleshy, softly modelled study
of the nude. In the somewhat awkward fashion of
the SS. Cosmo e Damiano 'pala (which this painting
reminds us of also in other respects) the two foreground-
figures on each side conceal, almost entirely save for
the head, a figure which stands behind, namely, to the
left, St. Jerome, vividly recalling, as already remarked,
the figure in the San Secondo picture, and to the right,
St. Augustine. At the foot of the throne, two boy
angels are standing, the one playing the violin, the
other the lute ; they are reminiscent of those in Mon-
tagna’s picture for the high altar of San Bartolomeo.
The effect of the whole is very rich and pompous.1
1 Montagnana. Municipio. Hall of the Consiglio Comunale.
The Virgin wears a vermilion tunic, a blue mantle with pale crimson
lining and a white hood embroidered with yellow. The Child is sitting
on her left knee. Behind her a narrow vermilion hanging. St. John
the Baptist, in violet leathern coat and green mantle, has in the right
hand a cross with the usual scroll. St. Paul in green tunic, vermilion
mantle, holds in the left hand a book. St. Augustine is in bishop’s
robes. St. Sebastian has his hands bound behind his back and wears
a white loin-cloth. The left putto is in purple, the right one in
blue. On a cartellino on the pedestal of the throne the signature :
loANES BONI CO | SILIJ * P *
On wood. Circular top. About 4-4.5 X 3. Crowe and Cavalcaselle,
op. cit. i. 441 sq. The figure of the Virgin comes, as regards arrangement
of the draperies and colour-scheme, very close to that in the altar-piece
at Montecchio Maggiore. The architecture and the figure of St. John
the Baptist in both works also have points of contact, and St. Augustine
here reminds one of St. Gregory in the same painting.
179
a man of mobile temper, gesticulating with his
badly drawn right hand, and clad in a pale crimson
tunic and a brownish yellow mantle—an unconven-
tional and beautiful combination of colour ; the
latter saint, firm, calm and resolute, his right hand
resting steadily on his large sword. To the left of
St. Peter stands St. John the Baptist, and at the
corresponding place on the other side the handsome
young St. Sebastian, a fleshy, softly modelled study
of the nude. In the somewhat awkward fashion of
the SS. Cosmo e Damiano 'pala (which this painting
reminds us of also in other respects) the two foreground-
figures on each side conceal, almost entirely save for
the head, a figure which stands behind, namely, to the
left, St. Jerome, vividly recalling, as already remarked,
the figure in the San Secondo picture, and to the right,
St. Augustine. At the foot of the throne, two boy
angels are standing, the one playing the violin, the
other the lute ; they are reminiscent of those in Mon-
tagna’s picture for the high altar of San Bartolomeo.
The effect of the whole is very rich and pompous.1
1 Montagnana. Municipio. Hall of the Consiglio Comunale.
The Virgin wears a vermilion tunic, a blue mantle with pale crimson
lining and a white hood embroidered with yellow. The Child is sitting
on her left knee. Behind her a narrow vermilion hanging. St. John
the Baptist, in violet leathern coat and green mantle, has in the right
hand a cross with the usual scroll. St. Paul in green tunic, vermilion
mantle, holds in the left hand a book. St. Augustine is in bishop’s
robes. St. Sebastian has his hands bound behind his back and wears
a white loin-cloth. The left putto is in purple, the right one in
blue. On a cartellino on the pedestal of the throne the signature :
loANES BONI CO | SILIJ * P *
On wood. Circular top. About 4-4.5 X 3. Crowe and Cavalcaselle,
op. cit. i. 441 sq. The figure of the Virgin comes, as regards arrangement
of the draperies and colour-scheme, very close to that in the altar-piece
at Montecchio Maggiore. The architecture and the figure of St. John
the Baptist in both works also have points of contact, and St. Augustine
here reminds one of St. Gregory in the same painting.