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588 EARLY CHRISTIAN ART. Chap. XXVII. left and cursing with his right hand, imitates the attitude of the Saviour in the Last Judgment at the Campo Santo at Pisa. 1 A small, weak and repainted ascension by Angelico, a much restored descent of the Holy Spirit, are also in the Corsini Gallery; and a Virgin and child with saints from the gallery of Count Bisenzio at Rome now adorns the collection of Lord Ward. 2 In the Turin Gallery two very graceful angels, each on a small panel kneeling on clouds, are genuine works of Angelico. 3 1 A thick coat of varnishes of various periods disfigures the pa nel. The picture is small and like the last, altered in shape. The subject, treated as has been seen in the panels of the S.S. Annunziata atFlorence,may again be found in a small panel at Leonforte in Sicily in the church of the Cappuccini, a donation to that church of the Branciforti Trabbid family. The composition is almost a repetition of that of Lord Ward. The Saviour menaces with his right and left. The picture is repainted, and copious retouch ing in oil all but obliterates the style of the master, so that it is difficult to judge whether origi nally the picture was by the master, or an old copy. 2 M r . Barker’s collection has a very fine Madonna with a female saint kneeling. In front on one side is an angel, three others holding the drapery behind. In the spandrils are two angels with censers. The picture is in good preservation. 3 No. 553 Cat. A Virgin and child, does not combine the ex quisite feeling of Angelico’s best works. In the style of the latter is a picture in the magazine of the public gallery of Parma re presenting the Virgin and child enthroned, with seven angels about her, between S.S. Francis and Dominick, who embrace each other as they kneel, and the erect S.S. Paul and John the Baptist. This also is executed in the spirit, but without the refinement of Angelico, and presents the character of cer tain frescos in S. Marco, which are assigned for this reason to Fra Benedetto. A record on the back of the panel says it was bought at Florence in 1786, and considered to be by Benoz^o Goz- zoli. A Madonna between S.S. Domi nick and Peter Martyr in the Berlin Gallery (No. 60), though repainted in old times, is evidently by Angelico. The greeting of S.S. Dominick and Francis, and the apparition of S. Francis at Arles (No. 61 and 62 in the same gal lery) , are both by Angelico but are more or less retouched. A pretty Virgin with six angels in perfect preservation is in the Frankfort Gallery (No. 13). A pretended Angelico, lately in the Campana collection and now in Paris, is certainly not by him but by some pupil, and recals to mind the manner of Andrea da Firenze. The predella subjects are copies from Angelico. “S. Ambrose refusing the en trance of the temple to Theodo sius” is a well preserved panel of the master in the Antwerp Gallery. A Last Judgment, again, at Berlin (No. 57) with an inscrip tion purporting that the picture was executed in 1456 a year after