These two Honthorsts are, as I say, the most popular of the pictures on Sunday, when the Uffizi is free; but their supremacy is challenged by the five inlaid tables, one of which, chiefly in lapis lazuli, must be the bluest thing on earth.
Passing for the present the Sala di Niobe, we come to the Sala di Giovanni di San Giovanni, which is given to a second-rate painter who was born in 1599 and died in 1636.

His best work is a fresco at the Badia of Fiesole.

Here he has some theatrical things, including one picture which sends English ladies out blushing.

Here also are some Lelys, including "Nelly Gwynn".

Next are two rooms, one leading from the other, given to German and Flemish pictures and to miniatures, both of which are interesting.