and shows his practice of demonstrating the versatility of his many
talents. The small _Nativity_ (No. 1435) is an authentic work. The
_Madonna and Child, with St. George, St. Sebastian, St. Francis, and
St. John the Baptist_ (No. 1436A), is known as the _Guastavillani
Madonna_ from the inscription to the effect that Filippo Guastavillani,
a Bolognese senator, ordered the picture of Francia. Nevertheless,
this large panel appears to have been executed by his son, Giacomo.
A _Madonna and Child_ (No. 1437) and a _Holy Family with St. Francis
d’Assisi_ (No. 1437A) are only by pupils.
The Louvre contains no example of the work of the Umbrian artist,
Timoteo Viti (1467-1524), who was a pupil of Costa, and from July 1490
to April 1495 worked in the studio of Francia. There are no other
sixteenth-century Bolognese paintings in this collection.