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differ slightly from them; but they also differ slightly from those illustrating the life of S. Nicholas so that it is difficult to say whether they are by the same hand. They are, however, of a later date than the frescos by Giotto, and are executed in a style not dissimilar from those inside the chapel del Sacramento. They represent on one side of the arch, the death of a child by the fall of a house and his resurrection at the intercession of S. Francis. 1 On the opposite side of the arch is the resur rection of the child, 2 a very fine composition, in part dama ged and discoloured, but very animated. The medallion prophets in the painted ornament are different from those of the other frescos in the transept. Above these two scenes is a splendid annunciation, with a majestic figure of Gabriel, and a Virgin erect and shrinking back in surprise, but matronly and well folded in her blue mantle. The draperies have the breadth of those in the apostles of the chapel. The head of the announcing angel is round and pleasant. Puccio Capanna is, according to some writers, the painter of the annunciation; but who can pretend to affirm this with any certainty? A Ma donna amongst saints, 3 in style much resembling these frescos, perhaps feebler, adorns the Medici chapel in S. Croce at Florence. Of the saints, Bartholomew is espe cially fine. In S. Chiara of Assisi, an edifice which 1 In the first of these scenes, the ruins of a house may be seen in the distance to the left, and on the foreground a man, almost turning his back to the spectator, holds the corpse of the child which the mother in an agony of grief stoops to kiss. Behind her, a fe male wrings her hands, another tears her hair, a third lacerates her cheeks with her nails, and more to the right are other female spectators. On the extreme left, a man stands in profile, to whom tradition gives the name of Giotto, Vasari having stated in a general way, that in the sides of this por tion of the church a portrait of Giotto existed. Vasari. Vol. I. p. 317. 2 S. Francis in flight appears in the upper story of a house where he lay and may be ob served to rise in bed. A youth runs down a flight of outer steps to make the miracle known, whilst in front of the house, a tressel lies ready for the body. The clergy has arrived and a crowd waits to follow the funeral. 3 S.S. Louis, John the Baptist, Bartholomew, Peter and other saints. In the medallions of the niches are prophets.