474 EARLY CHRISTIAN ART. Chap. XXI. understand how Vasari should attribute to the patriarch of Siennese painters a picture so evidently by an imitator of Agnolo Gaddi, coloured in light tones and defective as regards the character of the heads. That Agnolo had many imitators is evident from another Virgin and Saints 1 in the same gallery, whither it was brought from the convent of S. Matteo in Arcetri of Florence, much damaged, and less valuable even than the foregoing, but still displaying the education of Agnolo’s school. The signature “Puccius Simonis Flor. pinxit hoc opus” is the only clue to an obscure and not talented follower of Agnolo Gaddi. Equally obscure and only known from the signature of a Coronation of the Virgin, with S. John the Baptist and S. Martin at the sides, in the hands of Signor Cor- visieri at Borne, is one Matteo Pacini whose name is found in the inscription at the base of the triptych. “Anni Domini 1360 Mateus Pacini me pinxit adi 20 di Marzo.” This picture is in the style of the Gaddi, ill- composed of ugly figures and heavily coloured. Matteo Pacini appears in the register of Florentine painters in 1374. 2 Frescos with no higher claim to attention than this work of Pacini, and though in the same manner still probably by another hand, may be seen in the church of S. Sisto Vecchio at Rome, where they have been recently discovered between the choir and the walls of the older portions of the edifice. One of the subjects is the descent of the Holy Spirit with Saints 3 beneath it, under painted niches, of which only vestiges remain. These defective works may date as far back as the close of the four teenth, or rise of the fifteenth century. Amongst Agnolo Gaddi’s pupils, Vasari names Gio vanni the second son of Taddeo, who lived but a short space, and who after painting certain frescos in S. Spi- 1 No. 4. Salle des petits tableaux. The picture represents the Virgin and child (all repainted) between S.S. Onofrio, Lorenzo, James and Bartholomew. 2 Vide Gualandi, Memorie Orig. Ser. 6. p. 186. 3 S.S. Dominick, Anthony, John the Baptist, Paul and others.