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character, type, drawing, drapery, ornament or colour. It is Siennese and of the school of the Lorenzetti. Nor is it possible, in all the subjects that have been enumera ted, to trace any variety of hand. The school of Giotto is sufficiently represented at S. Francesco of Assisi to ren der all mistake impossible. Were there any trace of the Giottesque in the paintings assigned to Cavallini, it might be granted that Vasari was l'ight. Cavallini, who was great, especially when he followed the designs of Giotto, and who revealed his Roman education when he had not Giotto for a guide, cannot be the author of paintings, which bear the unmistakeable stamp of the school of Sienna; and Vasari by assigning them to him, simply contradicts his own description of the style of Cavallini. But that Vasari put the materials of this life together at haphazard is suffi ciently proved at Orvieto, where he assigns to Cavallini the frescos in the chapel del S.S. Corporate, 1 paintings of a third rate order, signed by their author, Ugolino di Prete Ilario. That Cavallini was a successful sculptor need excite no surprise, were it proved that he executed any works of that kind. The examples of the Cosmati were near at hand and numerous at Rome, but the wooden Saviour on the crucifix in S. Paolo fuori le Mura (chapel del Crocifisso) 2 is of that colossal and developed anatomy which betrays the age of Donatello more than that of Cavallini. 3 Vasari, uncertain as to the period in which Ca vallini lived, says: “His works were about the year 1364 and he was buried in S. Paul at Rome.” 4 He gives an epitaph which seems as much entitled to credit as that celebrated one in which archbishop Turpin con- of Baldinucci. Yet it is probable that the date is that of the orna mental frame, not of the picture. 1 Yas. Yol. H. p. 84. 2 Vas. Vol. H. p. 85. 3 This crucifix is, according to Pistolesi, (annot. to Vas. p. 84. Vol. II) the same mentioned by Vasari. If so it deserves atten tion only for a miraculous con versation between the crucified Saviour and S. Brigitta in 1370. Vas. Vol. II. p. 84. 4 Vas. Vol. II, p. 85.
