still be read in the middle this epitaph:

A.D. 1356, BARTOLUS MAGISTRI FREDI DE SENIS ME PINXIT.

At this time Bartolo must have been young, because in a panel containing
the Circumcision of Our Lord, together with some saints, wrought
likewise by him in the year 1388 in S. Agostino, in the same territory,
on the left hand as one enters the church through the principal door, it
is seen that he had a much better manner both in drawing and in
colouring, seeing that some heads therein are beautiful enough, although
the feet of those figures are in the ancient manner. In short, there are
seen many other works by the hand of Bartolo in those parts.

But to return to Taddeo: the painting of the Chapel of the Palazzo della
Signoria in his native city being entrusted to him, as it has been said,
as the best master of those times, it was wrought by him with so great
diligence, and so greatly honoured with regard to its situation, and
paid for by the Signoria in such a manner, that Taddeo largely increased
his glory and fame thereby; wherefore not only did he afterwards paint
many panels in his own country, to his great honour and infinite profit,
but he was invited with great favour and sought for from the Signoria of
Siena by Francesco da Carrara, Lord of Padua, to the end that he might
go, as he did, to paint certain works in that most noble city; where,
particularly in the Arena and in the Santo, he wrought some panels and
other works with much diligence, to his own great honour and to the
satisfaction of that Lord and of the whole city. Returning afterwards to
Tuscany, he wrought a panel in distemper, which inclines to the manner
of Ugolino Sanese, in San Gimignano; and this panel is to-day behind the
high-altar of the Pieve, and faces the choir of the priests. Going next
to Siena, he did not stay there long before he was invited by one of the
Lanfranchi, the Warden of Works of the Duomo, to Pisa; and betaking
himself thither, he made in fresco, in the Chapel of the Nunziata, the
scene when the Madonna ascends the steps of the Temple, at the head of
which the priest is awaiting her in full canonicals--a highly-finished
work. In the face of this priest he portrayed the said Warden of Works,
and beside him his own self. This work finished, the same Warden of
Works made him paint over the chapel in the Campo Santo a Madonna being
crowned by Jesus Christ, with many angels in very beautiful attitudes
and very well coloured.