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Chap. XIII. TADDEO’S FRESCOS AT PISA. 369 edience wearing the yoke. In the next compartment, saints hover in couples fronting each other, — S. Dominick with S. Augustin, S. Francis with S. Louis of Thoulouse, S. Benedict with S. Basil. In the same order in the angles, are the allegorical figures of temperance, wisdom, humility, chastity, fortitude and penitence. 1 The signa ture and date, preserved in Vasari, 2 have disappeared with the frescos of the walls, a portion of which represent ing a youthful and an aged saint were quite lately white washed. The distribution of the space in the ceilings is good and agreable to the just maxims of Giotto. Of the frescos executed in the cloisters of S. Francesco of Pisa, nothing remains; but if the gigantic head of the Virgin and part of the Saviour, preserved in the Cappella Amma- nati of the Campo Santo, be a fragment of them, they cannot have been by Taddeo Gaddi, whose forms were not of the round character conspicuous in these remains. 3 On his return to Florence, Taddeo painted the tribunal of the “Mercanzia” with allegories which have since perished. He was afterwards called to Arezzo and Ca- sentino, where he executed numerous works with the assistance of Giovanni da Milano and Jacopo di Casen- tino. 4 These have likewise disappeared, and after 1366, he is no longer known by records or pictures. 5 The date of his death, erroneously recorded by Vasari as 1350, has 1 On the knees of S. Francis a book bears the words: “Tres ordines hie ordinat.” Faith, draped even to the head, carries a cross and is veiled. Wisdom carries books; chastity bears a lily and vial; fortitude a pillar and shield; penitence an instrument of fla gellation. The blue ground is gone. 2 Vas. Vol. II. p. 112. “Ma- gister Taddeus Gaddus de Flo- rentia pinxit banc historiam S. Francisci et S. Andrei et S. Ni colai A. D. 1342 d. mense Au- gusti.” The side walls were white washed in 1613. VideMorrona, Pis. Illust. Vol. HI. p. 56. 3 This fragment is colourless; and the subject is only visible in outline. The surface has been altered by varnish. 4 He is said to have painted at the Sasso della Vernia, where he first met Jacopo. Vide Vasari. Vol. II. p. 178. 5 Richa, Chiese. Vol. HI. p. 31, speaks of certain frescos in the chapel of the family del Pa- lagio, church of the S.S. Annun- ziata at Florence painted in 1353, and removed to make place for others by Matteo Rosselli. 24 VOL. I.
