Chap. XV. BUFFALMACCO. 391 spectator of the fine figures painted by Orcagna in S. Maria Novella at Florence. Near this figure, which no doubt is that of S. Catherine of Sienna, is a magnificent life size head of S. Dominick, of regular shape, firmly drawn, well modelled and painted in warm light flesh tones. Vestiges may he found also of a head of S. Bartholomew — of the Saviour in glory — of soldiers wielding swords. 1 Vasari, however, not content with assigning the frescos to Buffalmacco, 2 attributes them in another place, and quite as arbitrarily, to Stefano Fiorentino. 3 At Florence a picture in the Academy of Arts, 4 assigned to Buffalmacco, represents S. Humilita of Faenza, and scenes from her life. But the style is that of the Siennese school. It would appear that the Pisans commenced, for the first time, to order paintings for the Campo Santo in 1299 and 1300, when one Datus, assumed by many to be identical with Deodati Orlandi of Lucca, 5 * executed certain works; and Vincinus Vanni of Pistoia, with Jo hannes Apparecchiali, painted a Virgin and child between the Baptist and Evangelist.® A painter of the name of Nuccarus was employed in 1301 to execute the Virgin and child above a gate of the Campo Santo. 7 After this the records give little or no notices of paintings till much later. Pisa, in truth, did not produce during the four teenth century any painter above the most ordinary stamp, a fact which is the more incomprehensible if one considers that most important pictorial works were under taken, not only in the churches and cathedral, but in the Campo Santo. It will be seen that the Pisan pain ters of the fourteenth century formed themselves more or less upon the models of Sienna, but at so humble a distance from them that the masters of the great Pisan 1 Hardly visible without a lan tern, on account of the darkness of the chapel. 7 Vas. Vol. II. p. 61. 3 Vas. Vol. II. p. 20. 4 No. 3. 5 See Forster in Kunstblatt 1833. No. 68. 6 Libr. Entr. eUscita dell’ Opera del Duomo di Pisa a. 1299. 1300. in Forster, Kunst blatt 1833. No. 68, and Ciampi. Notizie. Doc. XXIII. ub. sup. p. 143. 7 Libro F. del Duomo di Pisa 1301. 1302. in Ciampi. ub. sup. p. 145.