The left panel represents the Ascension, Christ being borne upwards by eleven cherubim in a solid cloud; the right panel--by far the best, I think--shows the Circumcision, where the painter has set himself various difficulties of architecture and goldsmith's work for the pleasure of overcoming them, every detail being painted with Dutch minuteness and yet leaving the picture big; while the middle panel, which is concave, depicts an Adoration of the Magi that will bear much study.

The whole effect is very northern: not much less so than our own new National Gallery Mabuse.

Mantegna also has a charming Madonna and Child, No.

1025, with pleasing pastoral and stone-quarrying activities in the distance.
On the right of the triptych is the so-called Carpaccio (1450-1519), a confused but glorious melee of youths and halberds, reds and yellows and browns, very modern and splendid and totally unlike anything else in the whole gallery.

Uccello may possibly be recalled, but only for subject.