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518 EARLY CHRISTIAN ART. Chap. XXIV. of Masolino. The manner of Masolino as understood by Vasari is that of Masaccio; and his remarks regarding foreshortening might indicate that Paolo Schiavo was a pupil of the latter rather than of the former. A Madonna between S. John the Baptist and another saint 1 still decorates the comer described by Vasari which now goes by the common appellation of Cantonelle; 2 but none of the figures are entire. They are seen to the knee only, a modern cornice possibly covering the lower extremities; and the painting itself is so damaged as to disclose little respecting its age or the style of the artist. Of Schiavo we must therefore be content to remain in ignorance. 1 The infant on the Virgin’s I on the Virgin’s right reads, arm carries a book, and the saint [ 2 For Canto di Nelli.