  A recently developed non-perturbative chiral approach to dynamically generate
the (3/2^-) baryon resonances has been extended to investigate the radiative
decays Lambda^*(1520) --> gamma Lambda(1116) and Lambda^*(1520) --> gamma
Sigma^0(1193). We show that the Lambda^*(1520) decay into gamma Lambda is an
ideal test for the need of extra components of the resonance beyond those
provided by the chiral approach since the largest meson-baryon components give
no contribution to this decay. The case is different for gamma Sigma decay
where the theory agrees with experiment, though the large uncertainties of
these data call for more precise measurements.
