... higher and most original gifts. Two signed examples are a Coronation of the Virgin in Santa Croce at Florence, and aMadonna, with saints and angels on the side panels, originally in S. Maria ... church at Assisi, and in these may be seen the remarkable fertility of invention with which he endowed his successors. Instead of the conventional Madonna and Child, and groups of saints and angels, ... we arrange our chapters accordingly under the titles of Tuscan and Venetian (the two main divisions of Italian painting), Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, German, French, and British Schools. In each...