476 EARLY CHRISTIAN ART. Chap. XXI. They are paintings of less merit than the Giottesque works at Rimini, and those along the coast of the Adriatic, hut of the same pictorial class. The artist was a bad com poser and exhibits poverty in the choice of types and forms. In the technical detail of his work he had some thing in common with such Paduan and Venetian painters as Guariento, Semitecolo, Stefano, and Lorenzo. He was probably a Venetian who had studied in the school of the Gaddi, but who preserved the old Byzantine habit of round gazing eyes, to be found in Guariento. Floren tine art, it must be remembered, penetrated far into North Italy, through Justus Menabuoi who lived at Padua in 1397, and who bears the stamp of the Gaddi school. As usual, the historian has to register a number of works which have not survived to the present time, such as the scenes of the life of S. Louis in the Bardi chapel at S. Croce, 1 2 the fres cos in S. Romeo, and the dispute of the Doctors in Orsan- Michele. Agnolo was first registered as a painter at Flo rence in 1387 year in which according to Vasari his death occurred. It is known, however, by records that in 1390, 3 he received a commission for the execution of a monu ment to Piero Farnese, at S. Maria del Fiore; 4 and the Strozzi records prove that he was employed during 1394 and 1395; on the production of an altarpiece in S. Miniato al Monte. 5 At his death his brother and heir claimed and received fifty florins remaining due for this work. 6 He died in October 1396, and was buried in S. Croce at Florence on the sixteenth of that month. 7 1 Yas. Vol. II. p. 152. 2 Noticed by Baldinucci. Vol. IV. p. 343, as still in existence, beneath the organ and near the sacristy. 3 Agnolo was married to Jo hanna daughter of one Landozzi Loli. She was still living in 1404. Vide Baldinucci. Vol. IV. p. 346. 4 Baldinucci, ub. sup. Vol. IV. p. 344. Richa (Chiese Fior. Vol. I. p. 297) assigns to Agnolo the design of the church of Orbatello at Florence, and notes (Vol. II. p. 35) a Madonna by him in S. Romolo. 5 1394. Agnolo di Taddeo Gaddi receives 20 flor. part payment for the altarpiece he is painting at S. Miniato. 1395. He receives further sums on account. MSS. Strozzi in C e n n i Storico-artistici, &c. di S. Miniato hy Avv. Gio. Felice Berti. Florence 1850. p. 155. 8 Ibid, same page. 7 See Gaetano and Carlo Mi-