82--is less remarkable.No.81, above it, is by Browning's Pacchiorotto (who worked in distemper); close by is the Masaccio, which has a deep, quiet beauty; and beneath it is a richly coloured predella by Andrea del Sarto, the work of a few hours, I should guess, and full of spirit and vigour.

It consists of four scriptural scenes which might be called the direct forerunners of Sir John Gilbert and the modern illustrators.

Lastly we have what is in many ways the most interesting picture in Florence--No.

71, the Baptism of Christ--for it is held by some authorities to be the only known painting by Verrocchio, whose sculptures we saw in the Bargello and at Or San Michele, while in one of the angels--that surely on the left--we are to see the hand of his pupil Leonardo da Vinci.

Their faces are singularly sweet.