Page:Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters.djvu/199

168 SIGNORELLI— SIRANL Saints (1491) : cathedral, Annanciation (1491). Cortona, in the choir of the Duomo, a Pietii, with four subjects from the Life of Christ on the Pre- della (1502): Gompagnia di San Nic- colo, frescoes, the Virgin and Child, with Saints : Church of the Gesi!k, the Last Supper (1512) : Citta di Castello Sant' Agostino, Adoration of the Magi (1493). Florence, the Uffis^, a Predella, with the Annunciazion ; Adoration of the Shepherds ; and Adoration of the Magi : Pitti Palace, Virgin and Child : Academy, the Virgin in glory, with Saints ; and a Predella, with subjects from the Passion. Perugia, cathedral, in the chapel of Sant' Onofrio, the Itladonna enthroned. Milan, Brera, the Virgin and Child; the Flagellation. Berlin Gallery, two side panels of an altar-piece, with figures of St Christo- pher and other Saints, formerly in Sant' Agostino of Siena. Louvre, the Birth of the Virgin. (Fcuart, JOeUa Voile,) SILVESTBO, Don, a Camaldolese monk of the convent of Santa Maria degli Angeli, Florence, living in 1410. Tuscan School. This artist was one of the most celebrated illuminators or miniature-painters of Italy. He was a minicUoref a red-letter writer, or illumi- nator of missals, and with Don Lorenzo he executed some remarkable decora- tions for the choral books of his con- vent Two of these, with the dates 1409 and 1410, are now, though much damaged, preserved in the Laureutian Librar}' at Florence. A drawing of the Birth of John the Baptist, in the Liver- pool Institution, brought to England by Young Ottley, is cut out of one of these books. Dr. Waagen notices several others by Don Silvestro, from these books, in Mr. Ottley's possession in 1835, consisting of Lettres Historikes and other decorations; especially a large initial, with the Death of the Virgin. They are superior to the miniatures of their time; more beau- tiful in colour even than those of the school of the Van Eycks. Don Sil- vestro was held in such esteem among the brothers of his order, that his hands were severed from his body after death, and embalmed; they are now exhibited to visitors in the sacristy of the monastery. Vasari has placed these monks too early. {Vasari^ Waagen.) SIM ONE, Maestbo, d. at Naples about 1346. Neapolitan School, a scholar of Filippo Tesauro. He is considered by the NeapoUtans to have been the rival of Giotto. Works of his are in the church of San Lorenzo ; and in Santa Maria Coronata (or the Incoronata) is a Dead Christ He is said to have painted also with Giotto in Santa Chiara, about 1325. Some of the Italian accounts state thai Simone painted in oil; this is an ezror. Simone's son Francesco was the master of Colantonio del Fiore; there is a fresco of the Madonna enthroned, with the Trinity, in Santa Chiara, by Fran- cesco. {Dondnidy IfAloe,) SIRANI, Elisabetta, h. at Bologna, January 8, 1638 ; d, August 28, 1665. Bolognese School. The daughter of Giovanni Andrea Sirani. According to the list of her works, in her own hand, published by Malvasia, she executed upwards of one hundred and sixty pic tures and portraits, although she died (as was supposed of poison) at the early age of twenty-seven : the Ust ex- tends over ten years only, from 1655 to 1665. Like her father, she was one of the most successful imitators of Guide's second manner. Several of her pio- tures are in the gallery of the Academy, and in the Zampieri, Caprara, and Zambeccari Palaces at Bologna; and in the Corsini, and Bolognetti Palaces at Rome. In the church of the Certosa at Bologna, she represented the Bap- tism of Christ The picture, formerly