Chap. XX. TRAINI. 457 inspired by the Saviour, Evangelists and Greek .philoso phers, triumphs over the heretics. 1 The whole picture is drawn with a careful hair outline within which the forms are accurately studied. Length and slenderness are characteristic in the figures. Softness rather than power, a certain sharpness of features withal, — small hands with long thin fingers, reveal in the artist a study of the Siennese rather than of the Florentine man ner. Nor is this impression weakened by the peculiarity of the execution which is strikingly minute and careful, even to the smallest details of hair and beard, — by the broadly folded draperies which, whilst they develop the forms they cover, are carried out with patient accuracy, — by the gay harmonies of the vestments, or by the ab sence of well defined masses of light and shade. Here, indeed, is a marked defect of Traini. His picture is flat and unrelieved, and in this he holds less to the grand style of Andrea Orcagna than to the softness, primness, and precision of the Siennese school. Yet at the same time Traini is not deficient in the art of composition. His space is well distributed and filled up, but the com position is of the tender religious kind in which compo sure and beatitude prevail; and generally the picture resembles a large miniature. No signature, no date au thenticate this altarpiece, but Vasari is profuse in praise of it and finds a charm in its “capricious” arrange ment. 2 Nor does he fail to notice the second production of Traini, which he describes as having been executed for a gentleman of the Coscia family, whose remains re pose in a vault of the chapel of S. Dominick in S. Ca therine of Pisa. But here Vasari errs no doubt, because, as usual, he read the inscription on the altarpiece with too much haste. The words at the base of the sides are as follows: “Hoc opus factum fuit tempore domini Johannis Coci . . 1 One of the foreground figures I sex pisanu” a modern addition, changed to represent Urban the VI th j 2 Vas. Vol. II. p. 138. bears a scroll inscribed “Urbanus I