What the old glass was like one can divine from the lovely and sombre top lights in exquisite patterns that are left; that on the centre of the right wall of the church, as one enters, having jewels of green glass as lovely as any I ever saw.

But blues, purples, and reds predominate.
The tabernacle apart, the main appeal of Or San Michele is the statuary and stone-work of the exterior; for here we find the early masters at their best.

The building being the head-quarters of the twelve Florentine guilds, the statues and decorations were commissioned by them.

It is as though our City companies should unite in beautifying the Guildhall.

Donatello is the greatest artist here, and it was for the Armourers that he made his S.George, which stands now, as he carved it in marble, in the Bargello, but has a bronze substitute in its original niche, below which is a relief of the slaying of the dragon from Donatello's chisel.