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Historical Archive: Cappella Strozzi di Mantova, Strozzi Chapel south transept, Santa Maria Novella, Florence Chapel of Saint Thomas Aquinas, present architectural form and altar probably about 1340-48 wall paintings Nardo (Bernardo) di Cione 1354–1357 altarpiece Orcagna (Andrea di Cione) 1357, signed and dated; frame 1862 copy of original paintings badly damaged by flood of 1967 Strozzi and Gaddi Chapels Strozzi Chapel from the east entry arch and vault from the east entry arch with SS. Augustine, Jerome, Gregory the Great, Ambrose entry arch, SS. Gregory the Great and Ambrose St. Gregory the Great St. Ambrose entry arch, south side: St. Peter Martyr entry arch, north side: St. Dominic entry arch, north side: St. Dominic, detail vault: Thomas Aquinas four times with virtues upper west wall: Christ in judgment with angels upper south, west, and north walls chapel interior with altar from the east west wall: Last Judgment and altar west wall: Last Judgment Altarpiece: Christ with SS. Michael (and demon), Catherine, Mary, Thomas Aquinas, angels, Peter, John the Baptist, Lawrence, Paul Altarpiece: angels with portable organ and bagpipe Altarpiece predella panels: Thomas Aquinas at Mass, Peter walking on water, Emperor Henry II saved by donation of chalice south wall: Paradise, joining with west wall: Blessed in Last Judgment south and west walls, with person for scale south wall: Paradise, full width Paradise: enthroned Christ and Mary/Ecclesia/Sponsa Paradise: angles, saints including Francis Paradise: angel musicians (thrones), left with viella, right with psaltery; background formerly blue entry arch and north wall: Hell north wall: Hell joining of west and north walls north wall, vestibule to Hell: the indecisive; Charon; castle of Limbo Hell, top: Minos, the lustful; middle strip: profligate and avaricious ecclesiastics rolling giant boulders Hell, top left: the lustful; center left: ecclesiastics with Plutus; lower center left: Furies at the city of Dis Hell, center: Cerberus with gluttons Hell, top: gluttons at table; center: wrathful and slothful in the river Styx, Phlegyas in boat Hell: harpies with suicides enclosed in trees Hell, top: heretics in burning sarcophagi; below: murderers and marauders including tyrants in burning river Phlegethon guarded by armed centaurs Hell, top: heretics in burning sarcophagi; center: Geryon with usurers and blasphemers in rain of fire Hell: three-headed Satan devours Brutus, Judas, Cassius; left: pimps and seducers Hell, left: flatterers; right: fortune tellers and diviners with their heads on backwards Hell: fraudulent counselors in flames Hell, upper left: practitioners of graft in boiling pitch with demons; center: thieves Hell, left: simoniacs upside down in baptismal fonts; right: sowers of discord Hell: frozen lake Cocytus with giants, punishment of traitors giants lower south wall medallion, lower south wall lower south wall, figure with flame: St. Jude Thaddeus?