| | | Siena. | | | 63. | 1384 | Magister Giacomo di | Contracted on Feb. 24, | | Castello | 1384-85, to make three | | | coloured glass windows for | | | the Duomo; he made also | | | those in S. Francesco at | | | Pisa in 1391. | | | 64. | 1386 | M. Giovanni Peruzzi | Did some stone building in | | | the tower at Siena cathedral. | | | 65. | 1388 | M. Mariano d'Agnolo | Carved several figures in the | | Romanelli | choir of Siena cathedral. | | | 66. | 1390 | M. Luca di Giovanni | C.M. at Orvieto for the | | | second time; the first was | | | in 1387. He was in the | | | Florentine Lodge in 1386. | | | 67. | 1423 | M. Bastiano di Corso (of | Engaged to make 59 _braccia_ | | Florence) | of inlaid frieze in the | | | pavement of the steps of the | | | high altar. ----+---------+-----------------------------+------------------------------ At first sight it would not appear that the Italian-Gothic cathedrals at Siena and Orvieto could have much to do with the ancient Comacine church of S. Michele at Pavia, but they are undoubtedly its hereditary descendants, and in great part the work of Comacine architects. Documents prove that a Lombard Guild, with _schola_, _laborerium_, and _Opera_, existed in Siena long before A.D. 1400. Legend, or rather tradition, says that this lodge began in Longobardic days, when the first Sienese Duomo was built by a certain Ava, descendant of Iselfred, a Longobardic prince. This Ava had, before going to Siena, caused a church (Aula Santa) to be erected "on an island near Borgonuovo by the lake" (Insula prope Borgonuovo juxta lacus). This must be the Comacine island on the lake near Como-nuovo, which was also called Borgonuovo.[212] It is also said that in 1180 Pope Alexander III. went to Siena, of which city he was a native, to consecrate the new Basilica.[213] Here we have the first link of the Comacine Guild with Siena, and I think it offers an explanation of the early existence of the Sienese school of painting. The Longobardic Masonic lodge seems to have been the only one of the kind then in Siena, and it held on for almost a century after the secession of the painters in A.D. 1355.