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owed much of its internal decoration to Giottino, 1 some vestiges of the art of the fourteenth century are pre served. The figures in the ceiling of the transept 2 seem, however, to have been painted there by an artist of the fourteenth century, but of much lower powers than he who executed the chapel del Sacramento. Vasari only affirms that Giottino painted scenes from the life of S. Chiara in the church of that name. Traces of such subjects have lately been recovered from whitewash in the sides of the right transept, as well as remains of incidents from the life of the Saviour; 3 but the remnant so recovered seems to have been originally of very small value. Besides these frescos or fragments of frescos in S. Chiara, a crucifixion (altarpiece) of the fourteenth cen tury is also preserved, which, though some resemblance may be traced in it to other third rate paintings at Pis- toia, one may still hesitate to ascribe, as has been done, to Puccio Capanna. Even in the private church of the convent of S. Chiara, whose frescos have that species of renown which generally attaches to carefully guarded treasures, the scenes of the Passion, painted on the walls, are of a low order, the least defective of which, a depo sition from the cross, 4 is painted in a soft method of colour. 5 A diligent search throughout the convents of Assisi produces no further result; their walls being in every instance carefully whitewashed. 6 That the works of two or 1 Vas. Vol. II. p. 143. 2 S.S. Agnes, Monica, Cathe rine, Mary, Chiara, Cecilia, Lucy guarded by angels, in the space diagonally divided. 3 The flight into Egypt and massacre of the innocents for in stance, which had not been white washed when Eumohr wrote at the beginning of this century. He notices them for the purpose of showing that in the 14 lh cen tury no one objected to seeing the acts of S. Chiara compared to those of the Virgin. This is truer than the artistic opinion that these frescos are like others assigned to Giottino. Forschun- gen. Vol. II. note to p. 213. 4 Above which are S. Chiara, a monk, the Virgin and child, S. Francis and another saint. 8 In the same chapel a mira culous crucifix is preserved, which certainly dates as far back as the X th century. 6 The following is a list of works mentioned by Vasari, which
