o, working in
his own city, honoured it with many beautiful works of painting, which,
together with his other most noble qualities, brought it about that he
was much honoured by his fellow-citizens, who employed him much in
magistracies and in other public affairs. The paintings of Bernardo were
many and in much esteem, and above all the Chapel of S. Lorenzo and of
S. Stefano, belonging to the Pulci and Berardi, in S. Croce, and many
other paintings in diverse places in the said church. Finally, having
made some pictures over the gates of the city of Florence on the inner
side, he died, laden with years, and was given honourable burial in S.
Felicita, in the year 1380.

But returning to Jacopo; besides what has been told, in his time, in the
year 1350, there was founded the Company and Confraternity of Painters;
for the masters who were then living, both those of the old Greek manner
and those of the new manner of Cimabue, being a great number, and
reflecting that the arts of design had had their new birth in
Tuscany--nay rather, in Florence itself--created the said Company under
the name and protection of S. Luke the Evangelist, both in order to
render praise and thanks to God in its oratory, and also to come
together sometimes and to give succour, in spiritual matters as well as
in temporal, to anyone who on occasion might have need of it; which
custom is also in use among many Guilds in Florence, but was much more
so in ancient times. Their first oratory was the principal chapel of the
Hospital of S. Maria Nuova, which was conceded to them by the family of
the Portinari. And those who were the first governors of the said
Company, with the title of captains, were six, besides two counsellors
and two treasurers, as it may be seen in the old book of the said
Company, begun at that time, whereof the first chapter begins thus:
"These articles and ordinances were drawn up and made by good and
discreet men of the Guild of Painters in Florence, and at the time of
Lapo Gucci, painter; Vanni Cinuzzi, painter; Corsino Buonaiuti, painter;
Pasquino Cenni, painter; Segna d'Antignano, painter. The counsellors
were Bernardo Daddi and Jacopo di Casentino, painters; and the
treasurers, Consiglio Gherardi and Domenico Pucci, painters."

The said Company being created in this way, at the request of the
captains and of the others Jacopo di Casentino painted the panel of
their chapel, making therein a S. Luke who is portraying Our Lady i