| originally designed by (46) | | | | Gio. Battista Sozzini, and | | | | executed by (47) Niccolo | | | | di Girolamo Gori, (48) | | | | Domenico di Pier Giovanni, | | | | and Bernardino di | | | | Jacomo, in 1562. | | | | | | | Hope | Originally designed in | | 7 | Faith | 1780, by Carlo Amidei | | 8 | Charity | and Matteo Pini, but removed | | 9 | (See below.) Religion | in 1878. | | 10 | In 1875–78, the scenes in the four lozenges, Nos. 47–50, by Carlo Amidei, being considered unsatisfactory, and the ancient scenes 38, 39, 40, being much dilapidated, (51) Professor Alessandro Franchi prepared four new designs of the same subjects for the lozenges, and three more subjects from the same story, for the three hexagons. Namely: (a) Elijah predicts the manner of Ahab’s death. No. 39.[1] (b) Ahab mortally wounded, No. 40. (c) Elijah carried to Heaven in a Chariot of Fire, No. 38. These designs were executed by (52) Prof. Leopoldo Maccari, with the assistance of the sculptors (53) Antonio and (54) Giuseppe Radicchi. The same artists also, at the same date, designed and executed, respectively, the figures of the four Theological Virtues (Nos. 7, 8, 9, and 10), as we now see them. [Illustration: LOMBARDI PHOTO.] I. GENERAL VIEW OF THE INTERIOR OF SIENA CATHEDRAL, SHOWING THE PAVEMENT] * * * * * ... “Cast down thine eyes; ’Twere well for thee, to alleviate the way, To look upon the bed beneath thy feet. * * * * * So saw I there, but of a better semblance In point of artifice, with figures covered Whate’er as pathway from the mount projects. * * * * * Who e’er of pencil master was or stile, That could portray the shades and traits which there Would cause each subtile genius to admire? Dead seemed the dead, the living seemed alive; Better than I saw not who saw the truth, All that I trod upon while bowed I went. _“La Divina Commedia” of Dante Alighieri, translated by H. W. Longfellow._