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A small picture of the same class by a Camaldole friar may complete this series. It is in the choir of the church of the Camaldole convent, two miles from Naples, and is in scribed: Petrus Dominici de Montepulciano pinxit MCCCCXX. Here the Virgin sits on a piece of gold brocade with the infant Saviour on her lap and throwing hack with one hand the veil from his shoulder. 1 Four angels playing music at the sides, two above, suspend a crown over the Virgin’s head. The work is low as that of a miniaturist whose technical art it shows. It has something in colour ap proaching to the pictures of Lorenzo Monaco, the tone being rosy, flat, light and greatly fused. The slender figures are beneath even those of Lorenzo, the draperies circular in fold, like some in the Siennese school. The execution is beyond description minute, and reveals the greatest patience in the artist. The form of the infant is by no means pleasing. This Petrus was a monk at Naples, but a Tuscan by birth, Montepulciano being at no great distance from Sienna. 1 Her blue mantle is adorned with angels’ heads.