nothing more
was done, as generally happens with works of this sort which are left by
a man to be finished after his death. For the said Bishop the Abbot
painted a large and beautiful chapel in the Duomo Vecchio, but, as it
had only a short life, there is no need to say more about it.
Besides this, he made works in various places throughout the whole city,
such as three figures in the Carmine, and the Chapel of the Nuns of S.
Orsina. At Castiglione Aretino, for the Chapel of the High-Altar in the
Pieve of S. Giuliano, he painted a panel in distemper, containing a very
beautiful Madonna, S. Julian, and S. Michelagnolo--figures very well
wrought and executed, particularly S. Julian, who, with his eyes fixed
on the Christ lying in the arms of the Madonna, appears to be much
afflicted at having killed his father and mother. In a chapel a little
below this, likewise, is a little door painted by his hand (which
formerly belonged to an old organ), wherein there is a S. Michael, which
is held to be a marvellous thing, with a child in swaddling-clothes,
which appears alive, in the arms of a woman. For the Nuns of the Murate
at Arezzo he painted the Chapel of the High-Altar, a work which is
truly much extolled. At Monte San Savino he painted a shrine opposite to
the Palace of Cardinal di Monte, which was held very beautiful. And at
Borgo San Sepolcro, where there is now the Vescovado, he decorated a
chapel, which brought him very great praise and profit.
Don Clemente was a man of very versatile intelligence, and, besides
being a great musician, he made organs of lead with his own hand. In S.
Domenico he made one of cardboard, which has ever remained sweet and
good; and in S. Clemente there was another, also by his hand, which was
placed on high, with the keyboard below on the level of the choir--truly
with very beautiful judgment, since, the place being such that the monks
were few, he wished that the organist should sing as well as play. And
since this Abbot loved his Order, like a true minister and not a
squanderer of the things of God, he enriched that place greatly with
buildings and pictures, particularly by rebuilding the principal chapel
of his church and painting the whole of it; and in two niches, one on
either side of it, he painted a S. Rocco and a S. Bartholomew, which
were ruined together with the church.
But to return to the Abbot, who was a good and worthy churchman. He left
a disciple in painting named Maestr
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