74 is in tempera: the next, also by Luca, No.1291, is in oil, a "Holy Family," a work at once powerful, rich, and sweet.

Here, again, we may trace an influence on Michelangelo, for the child is shown deprecating a book which his mother is displaying, while in the beautiful marble tondo of the "Madonna and Child" by Michelangelo, which we are soon to see in the Bargello, a reading lesson is in progress, and the child wearying of it.

We find Luca again in the next large picture--No.1547--a Crucifixion, with various Saints, done in collaboration with Perugino.

The design suggests Luca rather than his companion, and the woman at the foot of the cross is surely the type of which he was so fond.

The drawing of Christ is masterly and all too sombre for Perugino.