S.Elizabeth is of course the older woman.

The companion to this picture represents the angel appearing to S.Zacharias, and here again Ghirlandaio gives us contemporary Florentines, portraits of distinguished Tornabuoni men and certain friends of eminence among them.

In the little group low down on the left, for example, are Poliziano and Marsilio Ficino, the Platonist.

Above--but seeing is beginning to be difficult--the pair of frescoes represent, on the right, the birth of the Baptist, and on the left, his naming.

The birth scene has much beauty, and is as well composed as any, and there is a girl in it of superb grace and nobility; but the birth scene of the Virgin, on the opposite wall, is perhaps the finer and certainly more easily seen.