Note 6 — BOOK III.

It is remarkable that, a century previous to the arrival of Giotto, we find in Ravenna one Johannes Pictor; a fact supplied by the learned Count Fantuzzi, to whom both Ravenna and the public owe so much valuable information. See his "Monumenti Ravennati, during the middle ages, for the most part inedited," vol.i. p. 347. In vol. ii. p. 210, there is mention of a parchment of 1246, in which one Graziadeo, a notary, orders that in the Portuense church there be made "imagines magnæ et spatiosæ ad aurum," which means mosaic, or painting upon a gold ground, a custom so much practised in those times.