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Chap. IV. BARNA. 107 something of the features common to th<^ frescos of Barna also at S. Gimignano and to the works of Luca Thome. If it should ever be ascertained that these pictures were executed by Lippo, one must suppose that he declined with the lapse of years from the standard of his earlier days, and that he had learnt at last to paint with coarse colour and to draw defective articulations and extremities. Abetter example of the manner of Simone, Lippo and Barna, is a series of four pinnacles in the Sienna Academy 1 represent ing SS. Catherine, John Evangelist, John the Baptist, and Paul, above each of which a medallion contains respectively a prophet. 2 Vasari’s vague remarks that Lippo painted in fresco at S. Croce in Florence, in S. Paolo Ripa d’arno at Pisa, in S. Niccola of Ancona, may be passed by, as no traces con firm the truth of his assertions. He mentions an altarpie.ee of the Virgin between SS. Peter, Paul, John the Baptist and other saints signed by Lippo in S. Paolo Ripa d'arno at Pisa, which is not there now, an altarpiece of three half length figures in the Vescovado of Arezzo, two pictures in S. Croce of Florence, which have also disappeared, and a picture which found a place on the high altar of S. Francesco of Pistoia. 3 The “Campione”, which records the principal facts in reference to S. Francesco of Pistoia, states that, on the high altar of that church, there was a Virgin between SS. Paul, John the Baptist, James, Francis, Louis, Mary Mag dalen, and Chiara, inscribed: “Lippus Memmi de Senis me pinxit.” This is absent, and in its place a S. Francis as signed to Lippo is really by Margaritone. 4 Barna or Berna, who like Lippo laboured at S. Gimig nano, survived till much later, if we credit Vasari’s state ment that in the act of painting the right aisle of S. Gimignano church he perished (1381) by a fall from a scaffolding. 5 He died young adds the Are tine, yet if Luca di Thome was his pupil as the same authority affirms, he must have been old at his death, since Luca 1 N oa . 97—100 of Cat. 2 In this class wo may place a Virgin and child with saints. N°“. 10 and 11. A Virgin and child be tween two female saints, No. 13 in the Dresden Gallery. Baldi- nucci (Vol. IV. p.p. 320. 321) noti ces a fresco in S. Domenico of Sienna (the cloister) of the Virgin and child receiving an offering of flowers from two angels with S.S. Peter, Paul, and Dominick, at the sides; the whole inscribed: “Lip- pus me pinxit, Memmi rem gratia tinxit.” This has disappeared. 3 Vide Vas. Vol. II. p.p. 93—7. 4 Vide antea. Margaritone. 5 Vas. Vol. II. p. 162, and Bal- dinucci, Vol. IV. p. 493.