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mother, should be rated very highly. The 

 under-nurse is the next best figure, and might 

 very well be Tabachetti's, for neither Giovanni 

 d'Enrico nor Giacomo Ferro was successful 

 with his female characters. There is not a 

 single really comfortable woman in any chapel 

 by either of them on the Sacro Monte at 

 Varallo. Tabachetti, on the other hand, de- 

 lighted in women ; if they were young he 

 made them comely and engaging, if they 

 were old he gave them dignity and individual 

 character, and the under-nurse is much more 

 in accordance with Tabachetti's habitual men- 

 tal attitude than with D'Enrico's or Giacomo 

 Ferro's. Still there are only four figures out 

 of the eleven that are mere otiose supers, and 

 taking the work as a whole it leaves a pleasant 

 impression as being throughout naive and 

 homely, and sometimes, which is of less im- 

 portance, technically excellent. 



Allowance must, of course, be made for 

 tawdry accessories and repeated coats of shiny 

 oleaginous paint very disagreeable where it 

 has peeled off and almost more so where it has 

 not. What work could stand against such 



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