GENGA, GIROLAMO 1476-1551), Italian architect and painter of the Umbrian school, was born in Urbino about 1476. He studied with Luca Signorelli and then with Pietro Perugino. According to Vasari, who knew him personally, he decorated the hall of Pandolfo Petrucci's palace at Siena With a series of frescoes. Six of these were carved out of the wall and sold ; three are now in the National Gallery. (See J. P. Richter, Mond Collection.) In Rome he painted the "Resurrection" in the church of S. Cat erina da Siena. One of his leading works is the "Disputation of the Four Fathers of the Church" in the Brera, Milan, painted for the church of S. Agostino at Cesena. As a painter he was an eclectic, making the different styles of Signorelli and Perugino his own. He also imitated Pintoricchio. His work is decorative in design and light in colour but does. not rise to the excellence of his great masters. Genga was a sculptor, a musician, a theatrical de signer and an architect as well as a painter. He was indeed in the first place an architect; when in Rome he studied and measured the antique buildings, and he was then appointed ducal architect by the duke of Urbino. His most important architectural works are: San Giovanni Battista in Pesaro ; the bishop's palace at Sinigaglia; the new palace for the duke of Urbino on the Monte Imperiale. He was also concerned in the fortifications of Pesaro. Genga died on July II, 1551. His son Bartolommeo (1516-58) was an archi tect and painter.