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There is a painting, moreover, by the hand of Spinello, on one of the walls of the hospital of the Spirito Santo; it represents the Holy Ghost descending on the apostles, and is a very fine work; the same may be said of the two paintings beneath this descent of the Holy Spirit, where SS. Cosimo and Damiano are represented cutting off the sound leg of a dead Moor, to apply it to the body of a patient from whom they have just taken an injured limb. The NoU me tangere also, which is between these two paintings, merits equally to be praised, and is exceedingly beautiful. Spinello likewise painted an admirable Annunciation for the Brotherhood of the Puracciuoli, on the piazza of Sant Agostino; it will be found in one of the chapels: the colouring of this work is beautiful, and in the cloister of the same convent Spinello executed a Virgin in fresco, with St. James, and St. Anthony. On his knees before these figures is a soldier armed, with these words “Hoc opus fecit fieri Clemens Pucci di Monte Catino, cujus corpus jacet hic, etc. Anno Domini 1367, die 13 mensis Maii.” The picture, in the same church, representing St. Anthony with other saints, is also perceived, by the manner, to be from the hand of Spinello, who shortly afterwards painted, at the hospital of San Marco (which building has now been given to the nuns of Santa Croce, their convent, which was outside of the city, having been demolished), an entire portico, with many figures, among whom he has placed the portrait of Pope Gregory IX, taken from nature, and representing the Pontiff St. Gregory standing beside a Misericordia. The chapel of SS. Jacopo and Filippo, in the church of San Domenico, in the same city (Arezzo), the first chapel, that