GUIDO OF SIENA. The name of this Italian painter is of interest in the history of art, on the ground that, if certain assump tions regarding him could be accepted as true, he would be the earliest representative of a new school of neo-Byzantine art which flourished in Siena in the i3th century. The case stands thus. A large painting of the "Virgin and Child Enthroned," which was once in the church of San Domenico at Siena and is now in the Palazzo Pubblico bears a rhymed Latin inscription, giving the painter's name as Gu . . . o de Senis, with the date 1221 : Milanesi alleged that the inscription had been tampered with and should read I281, while Prof. Wickhoff maintained that the date 122I was genuine. Recent art criticism has inclined towards the latter view. Milanesi thinks that the work in S. Domenico is due to Guido Graziani, of whom no other record remains earlier than i 2 78, when he is mentioned as the painter of a banner.