In the centre of the picture is Our Lady on her knees with clasped hands in the act of adoring the divine Child, who is nude and seated upon a sack and supported by an angel. On the other of the Virgin is the child St. John, kneeling on one knee and also in adoration of the Christ. FLORENCE, THE UFFIZI PALACE. =Portrait=, believed to represent Francesco delle Opere, a Florentine artist, a brother of the celebrated Giovanni Corniole. He died in Venice 1496. [287.] The portrait is of a man with bushy hair. He has bright eyes, and is clean shaven. He wears a cap on his head and is clothed in a loose soutane. In his hand is a roll bearing these words =TIMETE DEVM=. The background is an Umbrian landscape. The picture is inscribed on the back: 1494 D'Luglio Pietro Perugino Pinse Franco del Ope (delle Opere). =Madonna and Child with two Saints.= [1122.] The Virgin is seated on a throne beneath a vaulted archway. She has the divine Child on her knees. At her left stands St. Sebastian; on the right St. John Baptist. The inscription on the base of the throne reads: =PETRVS PERVSINVS PINXIT AN MCCCCLXXXXIIJ.= _The picture was painted for the Church of San Domenico at Fiesole._ There are also three studies in the Uffizi for the =Pietà= in the Pitti. FLORENCE, THE ACADEMY. =Portrait of Don Biagio Milanesi=, General of the Vallombrosan Order. 1499-1500. [17.] =Portrait of Don Baldassare=, Monk of Vallombrosa. 1499-1500. [17 bis.] =Christ on the Mount of Olives.= 1492-9. [53.] _Painted for the Convent of the Gesuati, in Florence._ =The Assumption.= [55.] At the extreme top is the Eternal Father in a circle with adoring angels. Below, in a mandorla, is Our Lady surrounded by a group of cherubs, who, in their arrangement, follow the lines of the mandorla. On either side are standing angels playing on musical instruments, and below are flying angels and cherub faces. On the ground as spectators of the mystery are four Vallombrosan saints: Cardinal San Bernardo degli Uberti, San Giovanni Gualberto the founder, St. Benedict, and the Archangel Michael. The picture is signed: =PETRVS PERVSINVS PINXIT AD MCCCCC.= _This picture was painted for Vallombrosa._ =The Crucifixion.= [78.] On one side of the cross stands The Virgin, on the other St. Jerome with his lion. _From the Monastery of St. Jerome in Florence._ =The Entombment.= [56.] _This picture was also painted (in about 1493), for the Convent of the Gesuati._ =The Descent from the Cross.= [57.] The lower part of the picture is Perugino's work, and the background. Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathæa are on the left. The Madonna, fainting, but supported by the holy women, is on the right, and in the centre at the foot of the cross kneels Mary Magdalen. The three nails are in the foreground placed on the clothes of one of the men.