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exhibit similar defects to those already noticed in the Sa viour of Giovanni at Pistoia. 1 — The pulpit, as Yasari declares, was inscribed: ,,Laudo Deum verum per quem sunt optima reruni Qui dedit has puras homini formare figuras Hoc opus liis annis Domini sculpsere Joliannis Arte manus sole quondam, natique Nicole Cursis undenis tercentum, milleque plenis . . . . 2 During the nine years expended at intervals on this work, Giovanni is said to have laboured to erect the tomb of Benedict the Eleventh 3 in the church of S. Domenico at Perugia. It was a very fine monument, resting on a base under a painted tabernacle supported by winding columns. On the tomb lay the statue of Benedict ex posed to view by two angels holding back a curtain, 4 and supporting a cover, on the summit of which were a sta tuette of the Virgin and child, a bishop and a monk 1 Amongst other isolated por tions — one representing four Evangelists in one block with their symbols and a kneeling figure in front of S. John Evangelist, seems to have been the central support of the monument, and dis plays the best qualities of Gio vanni in classic heads and dra peries, fleshy articulations and animated movement. Other bas-reliefs have been brought together in the choir of the cathedral, evidently forming part of an old pulpit, represent ing 1. the annunciation, 2. the birth, 3. the presentation, 4. the adoration of the Magi, 5. the flight into Egypt, 6. the massacre of the innocents; all but the first and last are in the manner of an in ferior artist. (These four bas-re liefs were formerly a part of a pulpit in the church of S. Michele in Borgo of Pisa. See comments of Francesco Bonaini to the Cronaca del Convento di Santa Caterina, in Arch 0 Storico. Vol. VI. p. 472, and Morrona, Pis. Illust. Vol. III. p. 167, who assigns them to Fra Guglielmo.) The annunciation and the massacre seem more in the style of Giovanni. In the pulpit of the Duomo, the figures on the angles, — of the Saviour with his right hand on his breast and hold ing a book, three prophets and four Evangelists, seem to be by Gio vanni. Other remains, also by him, for instance, a base with the 8 sciences, are, now in the Campo Santo. No. 136. 2 This inscription is incomplete, and gives only the date of the completion of the pulpit. But it appears, (annot. to Vas. Vol. I. ]). 277) from another inscription in a pilaster outside the church, that the monument was commenced in 1302. 3 Benedict XI died in 1304 and was buried at Perugia. 4 On the faces of the cover four half figures of prophets.