Chap. VI, BONFIGLI. 141 ing to tradition this Adoration is due to the year 1460; 1 but this must be proved. Bonfigli had already en tered into a very extensive practise at that time. He had not only accepted (1454) the commission for frescos in the Palazzo Comunale, 2 but (1459J another for a • Brutus in the refectory of the Priori in the same build ing; and in 1461, 3 he enjoyed the. honour of seeing the first of these orders valued by Fi’a Filippo. 4 The Priori did not at first contract for the whole chapel. They resolved that the wall hallowed by the altar should be decorated with a Crucifixion, in which SS. Louis and Ercolano should attend on the Virgin and Evangelist, whilst on the remaining area, forming one half of the chapel, the legend of S. Louis should be illustrated. It is not difficult to ascertain the order in which the frescos were carried out, though some of them are seriously injured; nor is there any doubt as to the portion which Fra Filippo valued. The friars’ award which is still extant, distinctly alludes to the finished part as being on the side of the chapel looking towards the old palace of the Priori. Bonfigli may thus be supposed to have first done the Crucifixion, to which a more modern one has been since substituted. To the right of that, as you face the Crucifixion, are the Consecration of S. Louis as bishop of Toulouse, the Miracle of a merchant at Marseilles, and a third subject now almost obliterated. After the award, and therefore subsequently to the year 1461, he promised to furnish one compartment in every six months, until the whole chapel should be ready; yet we find him leisurely pro ceeding in 1464, 5 quarrelling for salary with the General Council in 1469,° still taking instalments of payment in Bonfigli an Adoration of the Magi in 8. Domenico which may he sup posed to have been that described in the text. 2 Vas.V.27G; and Mariotti, Lett ub. sup. 132. 3 lb. 140. 3 lb. 133. 4. Mariotti, ub. sup. 134. 6 lb. 135. 1 Passavant, Raphael (I. 479).