And here once again one should consult the "Mornings in Florence," where the wilful discerning enthusiast is, like his revered subject, also at his best.

Giotto's thoughtfulness could not be better illustrated than in S.Croce.One sees him, as ever, thinking of everything: not a very remarkable attribute of the fresco painter since then, but very remarkable then, when any kind of facile saintliness sufficed.

Signor Bianchi, who found these paintings under the whitewash in 1853, and restored them, overdid his part, there is no doubt; but as I have said, their interest is unharmed, and it is that which one so delights in.

Look, for instance, at the attitude of Drusiana, suddenly twitched by S.John back again into this vale of tears, while her bier is on its way to the cemetery outside the pretty city.

"Am I really to live again ?" she so plainly says to the inexorable miracle-worker.