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240 EARLY CHRISTIAN ART Chap. YIII. pride, envy, and avarice. His career seems suddenly ar rested by a ray which glances on his face from a mirror in the hand of prudence, a double headed figure sitting on the extreme left of a portico, in which are present likewise obedience and humility. The portico or lodge is symbolical of the sanctuary of S. Francis. In it hangs a crucifix. In front of it and beneath the symbolic figure of prudence an angel comforts and holds by the hand one of two kneeling figures. The first looks at the hybrid’s repulse and seems to signify that prudence teaches us to repel pride, envy, and avarice. The second, directed by a gesture from the angel, casts its glance towards humility who stands in the portico to the right, holding a torch in her hand signifying that humility lights the sinner to virtue. In the centre of the portico, obedience in the dress of a Franciscan and wearing a yoke, inculcates silence with its finger on its mouth and imposes on the shoulders of a kneeling monk a wooden yoke. Above, S. Francis is drawn up by the yoke to heaven, and two angels, at each side of him, hold scrolls on which are in scribed the rules of the order. On each side of the fore ground, angels kneel, the two nearest carrying cornucopia, the others in prayer. In the fourth compartment Giotto represented S. Francis in cathedra holding the book and cross, in a glory of angels varied in attitude and motion, some dancing, others sounding instruments of different kinds, and others holding lilies and palms. 3 The centre of the diagonals is a medallion with a figure of the Eternal, as he appeared to S. John, that is, the figure of “one girded about the paps with a golden girdle, his head and his hairs white like wool, as white as snow”.... and out of his mouth went “a sharp two edged sword”. 1 2 This vision of the Eter nal holds in its left a book inscribed “Liber ecclesiae divinae” and in its right the keys. In the ornament of the diagonals, the Lamb, 3 with three crowns, the symbols of the four evangelists, 4 winged, “the white horse” and he that sat upon him holding a bow, 5 “the black horse”, and he that sat upon him holding a pair of balances in his hand, 6 “the red horse,” and the rider wielding a great sword, 7 death on the pale horse, 8 angels, seraphim, and emblematic figures of the virtues. 1 These 4 frescos are on gold ground. 2 Rev. Chap. I. v. 13. 14. 3 Rev. C. V. v. 6. 4 Rev. C. IV. v. 6. 5 Rev. C. VI. v. 2. 6 Rev. C. VI. v. 5. 7 Rev. C. VI. v. 4. 8 Rev. C. VI. v. 8. '