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These, with the two frescoes of Fra Angelico, complete the paintings of the first vaulting. Those on the other side of the arch are executed entirely by Signorelli, and, with the exception of one, from his own designs. This one is the weakest of his roof-paintings in execution, and the composition and actual drawing of the central figures, are the work of Fra Angelico.
To the right is another of the pyramidal groups, fifteen "Doctors of the Church," some of whom are represented disputing and discussing points of theology. The last of the roof-paintings is a powerful group of "Patriarchs," ranking, with that of the "Apostles," among the most impressive of the frescoes.
How striking it is! But we must not mix his work with Raphael's." They passed through the first room of the gallery, stopping but a moment to see two or three comparatively unimportant pictures painted by Raphael, and went out into the Loggia. "I brought you through this without a word, when we first came," said Mr. Sumner. "But now I wish you to look up at the roof-paintings.
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