fourteenth century, and the wall of the chapel to the left of the choir is covered with an apotheosis of the Beato Bertrand, patriarch of Aquileia, with ten bishops at his sides and angels waving censers above their heads. 1 * * * * VI Beneath them a group of nine or ten friars sing at a desk, whilst the patron Bartolommeo Sclusano kneels on the right hand foreground attended by three youths, — four dames of his family sitting or kneeling on the left. 2 The central group of singing monks is the best part of a work which is clearly of a Giottesque style; and the figures lack neither, character, proportion, nor ex pression. The colour is of a light key. The rest of the fresco is redder in tone, and seems by another hand, but, though ruder, is executed on the same prin ciples as the rest. If this be a production of Nicolaus whose facade at Gemona is taken down, that artist may be classed amongst the mediocre followers of the school of Giotto. Lanzi may be consulted for other productions of this district and for lists of artists whose works are not forth coming. Venice last claims attention. It may be said to have 1 The angels to the left are gone, to the right two waving c.ensers and one holding a taper remain. Beneath the feet of these figures are inscriptions partly ef faced and difficult to read, but preserved in a copy of the fresco now in the choir, as follows: “In Xsti. nomine amen annis suq Nat'is currentibus 1338 Indictone VI di§ sda Augusti, ad laudem et gloriam Dei omnipotentis ejusque intemeratq genetricis Virginis Ma- ri$ nec non ad honorem B. An- dr§ Apost. sub cujus vcabule et nomine Rmus in Xsto Pater et Bus Dus Bertrandus Dei gratia S. Aquilejen: Cnte dignissimus Pa- triarcha consecravit hocTemplum una cum Rdo. Pat. b. Petro Ar- chiepiscopo, Nazareno nec non I b. b. Episcopes Gruidone Concor- diensi: Vitalq Emonensi: joanne Parentino: Andrea Caprolano: joanne Savinensi: Marco Domo- censi: Augustino Pelonensi, et Pietro Lesinensi quos quidem bus bus Archiepiim et Episcopos ad ipsam consacrationem cele- brandam prudes et notabilis vir. Bartholomeus Sclusanus dq V e n z o n o (tunc Camerarius ipsius Ecetq) pariter congregavit. et sicuti creatori altissimo placuit ante predram presulum segregationem pretus Bartholomeus sue vitq diem clausit extremus cui funeri presutis.” 2 The name of each person re presented is written beneath the figures, much abraded and diffi cult to read.