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Chap. XIX. ALTARPIECES BY ORCAGNA. 437 Another combining all his qualities hangs to the first pilaster, on the left as one enters the northern front por tal of S. Maria del Fiore at Florence, and represents S. Zanobius, the patron saint of the city, majestically sit ting in cathedra with SS. Crescenzius and Eugenius kneeling at his sides. 1 His feet rest in scorn upon the two allegorical vices of “pride” and “cruelty”. 2 In a medallion on the pinnacle of the throne, the Saviour gives the blessing; and, in the predella, are two episodes from the life of S. Zanobius. 3 Here, in spite of partial restoring, the colour is fine, clear, and luminous. The life size figure of the Florentine saint is imposing and majestic in deportment, of well chosen type, and lined out with severely simple contours. Animation is in his glance. Orcagna’s manner is here revealed, and the spectator has no diffi culty in finding the same hand as that which painted the Strozzi altarpiece. A picture, in the Medici chapel at S. Croce, inscribed 1363, is of the same class, and repre sents in four pointed niches the following enthroned saints: S.S. Ambrose, Jerom, Gregory, and Augustin. Above the pinnacles are the four symbols of the Evan gelists. 4 Of less marked resemblance with the undoubted Or cagna’s but in the same chapel is a picture in three parts, devoted to the apotheosis of S. Giovanni Gualberto and four episodes of his legend. 5 The saint in the garb of a monk, holding a staff and book, fills the central space, above which the Saviour gives a benediction. In one of the compartments the saint goes through the or deal of fire. On the pediment six lozenges are filled with figures of male and female saints. Many of the second sucking the blood of an infant. 3 In one, a youth is restored to life, in the other the withered elm blooms anew. 4 Numbered 33. 8 Marked No. 21, on the wall to the left of the entrance. 1 The former with a censer, the latter with a book; charity and humility as allegorical figures, sup port a damask cloth behind S. Zanobius. The head of charity is much damaged. S. Zanobius in episcopals holds a crozier. 2 The first remarkable by the golden horns on his head, the