The sun should stand still there: no rock more motionless.
Continuing along the Via della Colonna, we come, on the right, at No.

8, to the convent of S.Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi, which is now a barracks but keeps sacred one room in which Perugino painted a crucifixion, his masterpiece in fresco.

The work is in three panels, of which that on the left, representing the Virgin and S.Bernard, is the most beautiful.

Indeed, there is no more beautiful light in any picture we shall see, and the Virgin's melancholy face is inexpressibly sweet.

Perugino is best represented at the Accademia, and there are works of his at the Uffizi and Pitti and in various Florentine churches; but here he is at his best.