ria Sopra Minerva, in Rome;
on it lies the figure of a Dominican monk in marble. Pope Nicholas V.
wrote his epitaph in Latin. The following translation is by Professor
Norton:

"Not mine be the praise that I was a second Apelles,
But that I gave all my gains to thine, O Christ!
One work is for the earth, another for heaven.
The city, the Flower of Tuscany, bore me--John."

In the Convent of San Marco in Florence there are twenty-five pictures by
this master; in the Academy of Florence there are about sixty; there are
eleven in the chapel of Nicholas V., and still others in the Vatican
gallery. The Church of Santa Maria Novella, Florence, the Cathedral of
Orvieto, the Church of St. Domenico in Perugia, and that of Cortona, are
all rich in his works. Besides these a few exist in some of the principal
European galleries; but I love best to see them in San Marco, where he
painted them for his brethren, and where they seem most at home.

The chief merit of the pictures of Fra Angelico is the sweet and tender
expression of the faces of his angels and saints, or any beings who are
holy and good; he never succeeded in painting evil and sin in such a way
as to terrify one; his gentle nature did not permit him to represent that
which it could not comprehend, and the very spirit of purity seems to
breathe through every picture.

Two other Florentine artists of the same era with Fra Angelico were
MASOLINO, whose real name was PANICALE, and TOMMASO GUIDI, called MASACCIO
on account of his want of neatness. The style of these two masters was
much the same, but Masaccio became so much the greater that little is
said of Masolino. The principal works of Masaccio are a series of frescoes
in the Brancacci Chapel in Florence. They represent "The Expulsion from
Paradise," "The Tribute Money," "Peter Baptizing," "Peter Curing the Blind
and Lame," "The Death of Ananias," "Simon Magus," and the "Resuscitation
of the King's Son." There is a fresco by Masolino in the same chapel; it
is "The Preaching of Peter." Masaccio was in fact a remarkable painter.
Some one has said that he seemed to hold Giotto by one hand, and reach
forward to Raphael with the other; and considering the pictures which were
painted before his time, his works are as wonderful as Raphael's are
beautiful. He died in 1429.

PAOLO UCCELLO (1396-1479) and FILIPPO LIPPI (1412-1469) were also good
painters, and SANDRO BOTTICELLI (1447-1515), a pupil