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190 of those buildings. In the centre of this gallery the bishop intended to have his tomb constructed in the manner of a chapel, proposing to be buried therein, but his death took place before the work could be completed, and it consequently remained unfinished; for although he left orders that the work should be continued by his successor, yet nothing more was done; and so it happens for the most part to such undertakings as are left to be completed by others after the death of their projector. The abbot decorated a large and beautiful chapel in the cathedral for the same bishop; but as this work had but a short existence, I need not speak further concerning it. In addition to the works here enumerated, Don Bartolommeo executed many others for different places in all quarters of the city; among them were three figures in the chapel of the nuns of Sant’ Orsina, in the convent of the Carmine. At Castiglione, in the Aretine territory, this master painted a picture in tempera for the chapel of the high altar in the capitular church of San Giuliano. This work contains a singularly beautiful figure of the Virgin, with San Giuliano and St. Michael the archangel; both finely executed and delicately finished, more particularly the San Giuliano; his eyes are fixed on the Divine Child, which is in the arms of Our Lady, and the thought of his having killed his father and mother seems to be deeply afflicting him. In a chapel near this is a painting which was formerly on the door of an old organ, whereon is depicted a San Michele, considered most admirable, and an Infant, also in the arms of a woman, which seems absolutely alive.