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persion of the flocks and the burning of Job’s house. In the third compartment, Job is prostrate with his arms raised to heaven in front of two other kneeling figures. He is attended by a group of friends to the right, and seems to have descended from a throne beneath an arched building, to humble himself before God. 1 No one who has not the engravings of Lasinio at hand can now take in, without incredible trouble, the whole of these ruined frescos. With their assistance, he may admit that the compositions do not deviate much from the great maxims which Giotto carried out so perfectly. He will find animation and action in many groups, — an advanced study of the detail of form and a certain amount of pictorial feeling. Some types, indeed, are both grand and natural. The colours, judged from what re mains, were evidently handled by the master with ease. The artist, whoever he may be, whether Francesco of Yolterra, as the evidence would almost prove him to be, or another, doubtless executed many works besides these of the Campo Santo. There is a common style between them and the four frescos representing scenes from the life of S. Francis by the side of the crucifix and tree of Jesse in the great refectory 2 of S. Croce at Florence; nor is it improbable, from the resemblance between the latter works and those of the sacristy in the church of Ognissanti, that these are early works from the hand of the painter of the Job of the Campo Santo. 3 In 1377, Andrea da Firenze commenced the series of frescos illustrating scenes from the life of S. Eaineri, assigned by Vasari to Simone of Sienna; and Antonio Ve- niziano continued it in 1386, after Barnaba of Modena 1 This fresco was completed, says Cav. Totti, by Nello di Vanni of Pisa (a pupil of Orcagna); but, adds Morrona, he only repaired damage which had been caused by rain. Vide Morrona, ub. sup. Vol. II. p. 205. Yet Ro- sini,Storia dellaPittura.Vol. II. p. 7, and the annot. o f Va s. Vol. II. p. 135, affirm that Nello was “the author” of this fresco, which differs in no respect from the rest of the series. 2 Now carpet factory. 3 The frescos of the Ognissanti sacristy are more Giottesque and less modern in style then the Job of the Campo Santo, and may have been produced about 1350.