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- cenzo in the Church of S. Domenico at
Cortona, and in 1517 the Crucifixion, in the Church of the Fraternity of the Holy Cross at La Tratta. Two years later he was commissioned to paint a picture for the high altar of the confraternity of S. Girolamo Arezzo, now in the Church of the Nuns of S. Spirito, which, when finished, was brought there from Cortona (says Vasari) on men's shoulders. Signorelli visited Arezzo in 1520, to place the picture; and Vasari, then eight years old, saw him and spoke with him, as he relates. After his return to Cortona, where he was repeatedly elected to the magistracy, Signorelli painted a Virgin and Saints for the Collegiata at Fojano (1523), and in the next year commenced his last work, never finished, in the so-called Palazzone—a building erected by the Cardinal of Cortona about a half mile from the city. The fresco which represents the Baptism of Christ is still extant, though much over-*painted. Works: Flagellation, Brera, Milan; Madonna and Two Prophets, Holy Family, Uffizi, Florence; Virgin, Palazzo Pitti, ib.; Holy Family, Dresden Gallery; do., Palazzo Corsini, Florence; Circumcision, National Gallery, London; Dead Christ bewailed by the Marys and Apostles, choir of the Cathedral, Cortona; Communion of the Apostles (1512), ib.; Altarpiece, Città di Castello; High Altar, Compagnia di S. Niccolò, Cortona; Conception of the Virgin, Church of the Gesù, ib.; Virgin and Saints, Church of S. Cecilia, Città di Castello; do., Academy, Florence; A Predella, ib.; Male Portrait, Torrigiani Gallery, Florence; Adoration of the Magi, Predella, Virgin Reading, Louvre, Paris; Pietà, Keir, Scotland; Nativity, Leuchtenberg Gallery, St. Petersburg.—R. Vischer, Luca Signorelli (Leipsic, 1879); C. & C., Italy, iii. 1; Vasari, ed. Mil., iii. 683; Gaz. des B. Arts (1875), xi. 105.
SILENCE DU CARRACHE.
See Jesus, Sleep
of.
SILENCE DE LA
SAINTE VIERGE. See
Madonna with Diadem.
SILENUS AND SATYRS,
Rubens, Hermitage,
St. Petersburg; wood, H.
2 ft. 11 in. × 3 ft. 6 in.
Silenus, drunk, with a jug
in his hand, is supported
on one side by a female
satyr, and on the other by
a negress; in front, two female
satyrs lying on the
ground, one of whom is
suckling two young satyrs. Formerly in
Houghton Collection. Engraved by Soutman;
Earlom; Panneels.—Smith, ii. 158;
ix. 303.
By Rubens, Munich Gallery; wood, 6 ft. 6 in. square. Twelve figures, besides two goats and a tiger. Silenus, supported on left by a negro and on right by a satyr, near whom is an old woman carrying a jug; a faun, playing a pipe, precedes, and a young bacchante, an old woman, and two fauns follow him; in foreground, right, a female satyr, seated, suckles her twins. Engraved by Bolswert; Panneels; Van Orley. Similar subject, Berlin Museum and Cassel Gallery.—Smith, ii. 63; ix. 264.
Triumph of Silenus, Rubens, National Gallery, London.