. The cities of Romagna and the Marches. rancesco Fiorentino, the imitator of Neri di Bicci,and a Madonna adoring her little Son by Neri di Biccispupil, Botticini. In the church of S. Agostino is apicture, once attributed to Perugino, of the Adoration ofthe Magi, and a S. Antony painted on wood that hasmuch charm. Other works will be found in the Santuariodeir Ambro and in the Madonna del Fonte outside thecastello, where there are fine frescoes. Another excursion that should be made from Amandolabrings one across many hills to the north-east, to MonteSan Martino, another of those picturesque h
. The cities of Romagna and the Marches. rancesco Fiorentino, the imitator of Neri di Bicci,and a Madonna adoring her little Son by Neri di Biccispupil, Botticini. In the church of S. Agostino is apicture, once attributed to Perugino, of the Adoration ofthe Magi, and a S. Antony painted on wood that hasmuch charm. Other works will be found in the Santuariodeir Ambro and in the Madonna del Fonte outside thecastello, where there are fine frescoes. Another excursion that should be made from Amandolabrings one across many hills to the north-east, to MonteSan Martino, another of those picturesque hill townswhich are so wearying to reach, though always worth thetrouble and fatigue of the long climb at the end of whichthey shine. Here in the Municipio is a Crucifixion byGirolamo di Giovanni da Camerino. Another work, apolyptych, painted by the same master in 1473, is in theparish church of S. Maria del Pozzo. This representsin the midst the Madonna and Child enthroned with fourangels ; above in two tondi wc see the Annunciation. On. ALTAKPlECE BY GIROLAMO DI (.lOVANM DA CAMFKINOParish Chioxh. Mottle S. Martitto SARNANO 217 either side stand S. Thomas holding the girdle of theBlessed Virgin and an open book, and S. Ciprian vested asa Bishop holding his crozier. Above in the midst we seethe Crucifixion with the Madonna and S. John, and oneither side S. Michael and S. Martin, beneath two httlehalf figures of S. Peter and S. Paul — a very notablework. I left Amandola one morning in the public automobilefor Sarnano on my way to Macerata. The road thither,delightful though it be, has not the splendour of the waybetween Amandola and Ascoli, but it gives you Sarnano,which is worth any trouble to see. Sarnano, unlike almost every other city in the Marches,is not set on a great hill. The automobile passes quitethrough this picturesque little place with its great towerand piazza and rosy churches. Here in the CoUegiata,in a niche, Lorenzo da Sanseverino, the pupil of Girolamodi Gio
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