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Passing on to the south the next arch also has zigzag and circular mouldings, while its lunette is occupied by a relief, now so worn that the subject is scarcely discernible. It represents Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac. The father holds his son with his outstretched left hand, and is about to slay him, when God's hand appears in the clouds above.
All these were the display of the kindness of the same spirit who rode the thunder, who permitted a million babes to starve, who stirred in men the madness to slay a myriad of their brothers, and who fixed the countless stars in the firmament to guide them in the darkness. The hermit-crabs drew my minute attention, and I anchored my canoe and with the lunette watched them by the hour.
And the two extremities that remain on either side, like horns to the lunette and horns henceforward they will be called shall be left low, of the height that they are above that line, and in each of them must be painted a figure seated or recumbent, and seeming to be either within or without the room, whichever you please, for you must choose what looks best; and what I say of one lunette I say of all four.
"Wall, what think you, but major laughs, an' wouldn't tetch ary cent of it, but took 'is letters, an' says he, 'They've ackired a peculiar richness, says he, 'an' I'd orter be up there mail-openin' an' not make a lady so much trouble, says he. That's the kind o' poppolation 's I, for one, sh'd like to fill up the Basin with!" said Lunette, flourishing her rolling-pin.
The next year, 1516, Signorelli painted "The Deposition," of Umbertide, in which he shows all the technical power of his maturity (or was it, perhaps, that he left less of the execution to assistants?). It was executed for the little dark church of Santa Croce, in this village, till recently called La Fratta, and still stands over the high altar not, however, in its original frame, which was removed in the seventeenth century. It seems that there was a lunette over the top, containing a Piet
Eleanor took it and parleyed with them. They were to go away and leave her alone quite alone. Then when she came back they should have soldi. The children nodded shrewdly, withdrew in a swarm to the corner of the cloister, and watched events. Eleanor entered. From some high lunette windows the cool early sunlight came creeping and playing into the little whitewashed place.
He looked away from her with mischief in his eyes, and hummed a line through his fine Greek nose, as Captain Pharo might. "I don't doubt it, but you were high in the college too for Lunette saw it in a paper: so high it was spoken of!" "I just asked them to do that, Vesty. People can't refuse me, you know. I get whatever I ask for."
The lofty Gothic interior, dating from the late fifteenth century, is lighted by some sixteenth and seventeenth-century stained glass, and among the pictures that have escaped transportation to the Louvre may be noted a lunette over the clergy stalls R. of the nave, God the Father, by Perugino; and a remarkable tempera painting, The Passion, attributed to Dürer's pupil, Aldegräver, in the fifth chapel, L. aisle.
Across the Lunette, painted by Boucher and representing a chaste Diana surrounded by a bevy of nymphs, an uncouth hand had scribbled in charcoal the device of the Revolution: Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite ou la Mort; whilst, as if to give a crowning point to the work of destruction and to emphasise its motto, someone had decorated the portrait of Marie Antoinette with a scarlet cap, and drawn a red and ominous line across her neck.
A comparison of style no doubt renders this view plausible; for the lunette at Lucca is superior to any other of Pisano's works as a composition. The full discussion of these points is rendered impossible by the want of contemporary information, and each student must, therefore, remain contented with his own hypothesis.
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