panel-picture in oils containing the single figure
of that Saint; and below this, in a predella, he executed three scenes
with very graceful little figures. In one is Christ appearing to Mary
Magdalene in the form of a gardener, in another S. Peter leaving the
ship and walking over the water towards Christ, and between them the
Baptism of Jesus Christ; and all are very beautiful. For S. Giovanni
Evangelista, in the same city, he painted two panel-pictures, one with
that Saint consecrating the church, and in the other three martyrs, S.
Cantius, S. Cantianus, and S. Cantianilla, figures of great beauty. In
S. Apollinare, also in that city, are two pictures, highly extolled,
each with a single figure, S. John the Baptist and S. Sebastian.
And in the Church of the Spirito Santo there is a panel, likewise by his
hand, containing the Madonna placed between the Virgin Martyr S.
Catharine and S. Jerome. For S. Francesco, likewise, he painted two
panel-pictures, one of S. Catharine and S. Francis, and in the other Our
Lady with S. James the Apostle, S. Francis, and many figures. For S.
Domenico, in like manner, he executed two other panels, one of which,
containing the Madonna and many figures, is on the left hand of the
high-altar, and the other, a work of no little beauty, is on a wall of
the church. And for the Church of S. Niccolo, a convent of Friars of S.
Augustine, he painted another panel with S. Laurence and S. Francis. So
much was he commended for all these works, that during his lifetime he
was held in great account, not only in Ravenna but throughout all
Romagna. Rondinello lived to the age of sixty, and was buried in S.
Francesco at Ravenna.

[Illustration: MADONNA AND CHILD WITH SAINTS

(_After the painting by =Rondinello [Niccolo Rondinelli]=. Ravenna:
Accademia_)

_Alinari_]

This master left behind him Francesco da Cotignola, a painter likewise
held in estimation in that city, who painted many works; in particular,
for the high-altar of the Church of the Abbey of Classi in Ravenna, a
panel-picture of some size representing the Raising of Lazarus, with
many figures. There, opposite to that work, in the year 1548, Giorgio
Vasari executed for Don Romualdo da Verona, Abbot of that place, another
panel-picture containing the Deposition of Christ from the Cross, with a
large number of figures. Francesco also painted a panel-picture of the
Nativity of Christ, which is of great size, for S. Niccolo, and likewise
tw