ANTONIAZZO ROMANO - Christ in majesty - Rome, apse of S. Croce in Gerusalemme.
so much influenced throughout the rest of his activity that for several works the attribution to one or the other painter is doubtful. Thus, for example, for the Last Judgment painted above the tomb of Juan de Coca in the church of the Minerva, for the Annunciation of the Pantheon, and for that of S. Onofrio on the Janiculum. From the collaboration with Melozzo A. derived that greater breadth of composition, amplitude of forms and freshness of color that characterize his subsequent works: among which are notable the Uffizi triptych (1485), the Madonna of the Sodality of the Piceni (Rome) and that of the Louvre, both of 1494.
Among the many works attributed to A., but in which his versatile school, freely operating, certainly had a large part, are, in Rome, the frescoes of the apse of S. Croce in Gerusalemme (c. 1492) illustrating the finding of the Cross, with lively Umbrian reminiscences, particularly Peruginesque and Pinturicchiesque, and those of the convent of the Oblate at Tor de' Specchi (1468). Particularly interesting, the latter, for the lively narrative taste with which the stories of St. Frances of Rome are ingenuously recounted, with simplicity of expressive means, against the realistic background of the little squares and alleys of fifteenth-century Rome