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Cimabue may be followed with advantage. That the Pisans should employ him in the mosaics of their Duomo, and supersede for his sake their old capo-maestro Fran cesco, that the latter should think it consistent with his pride not only to yield to Cimabue but to labour in a subordinate situation under him, is one of the strongest proofs that the Pisans were unable to find in their own school one equal to the Florentine. 1 The Saviour enthroned in glory, or as the records of the time have it, the “Ma jesty”, between the Virgin and S. John Evangelist in the apsis of the Duomo of Pisa, was probably the last of Cimabue’s labours, as, according to Ciampi, the latter figure remained unfinished. Unfortunately the mosaic has suffered excessive damage. In the Saviour, the feet and other parts, in the Virgin, the face, and in St. John, subordinate portions have been deprived of their original character by restoring. Yet in the forms and features of these figures, and in the colossal overweight of the Saviour the manner of Cimabue can be discerned. He gave the Re in oil. As for the remaining parts, the execution is rude, the shadows dark, the outlines black and the feet large and defective. Yet the colossal figure of the Saint is im posing in attitude. Vasari finally attributes to Ci mabue the S. Francis of S. Fran cesco of Pisa, which exists, and is, in style, worthy of Margaritone, to whom it will he found assigned in the foregoing pages (Vas. Vol. I. p. 223). In the late Campana Gallery at Rome was a picture of S. Chris topher, supposed to be the same which, according to Vasari, was painted by Cimabue in his house in Borgo Allegri at Florence (Vas. Vol. 1. p. 225). This picture, however, besides being [exten sively damaged, is too evidently a work of the first half of the 14 th century. Richa, Vol. IV. p. 306, notices a crucifix by Cimabue in the convent church of S. Jacopo di Ripoli at Florence. ‘In Ciampi (Notizie p. 144) is a record of 1301 /i3o2 in which Ci mabue’s name appears as receiv ing in company of his “famulus”, pay at the rate of X. solidos per diem, for the execution of the “Majesty” in the Duomo of Pisa. Bonaini (Notiz. Ined. p. 91) cor rects Rosini who affirms that Francesco only laboured in the Duomo after Cimabue. See Ro sini Stor. della Pittura, Vol. I. p. 258. It is an error of the annotators of Vasari, note 2 to p. 226. Vol. I. to state that Ci mabue only executed the figure of the Evangelist in the mosaic of the Duomo. The document given in Ciampi says: “Cimabue pictor magiestatis sua sponte confessus fuit se habuisse &e. lib. de cern... de figura S. Johannis quam fecit juxta magiestatem.” Thus he had already completed the “Majesty” when he commenced the figure of S. John.