There is a certain amount of elegance in the figure of the
daughter, and it is supposed by some that the floating
draperies of the latter figure show the handiwork of Filip-
pino, the son of Filippo. In the Interment of St Stephen,
which is represented as taking place in the interior of a
basilica, there are three heads of great beauty — those of
angels or youths, kissing the feet of the Proto-Martyr.
Some of the figures are portraits — one that of the painter

The two chapels nearest the choir in Prato Cathedral
are frescoed in an earlier style, but have been quite ruined
by repainting. Another chapel is decorated by a modern
painter of Prato of great talent, Franchi by name. Although
the character of the figures is too modern to suit the en-
vironments, the general effect is fairly good ; the drawing
is excellent, and in some of the groups the expressions and
attitudes suggest Andrea del Sarto's happiest efforts.
On the left hand of the principal entrance to Prato

Cathedral is the chapel of the Sacra Cintola, with frescoes

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by Angelo Gaddi, dating from the decade of the fourteenth
century, and of superior merit. Unfortunately the chapel
is so dark that it is difficult to decipher the subjects, which
represent scenes from the life of the Virgin Mary. A pro-
cession with an architectural background in one of the
divisions is perhaps the most remarkable of these pictures.
