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hair and no fresco background, but time has 

 had abundant opportunities without these. I 

 will conclude my notice of this chapel by say- 

 ing that on the left, above the door through 

 which the under-under-nurse's drudge is about 

 to pass, there is a good painted terra-cotta 

 bust, said but I believe on no authority to 

 be a portrait of Giovanni d'Enrico. Others 

 say that the Virgin's grandmother is Giovanni 

 d'Enrico, but this is even more absurd than 

 supposing her to be St. Joachim. 



The next chapel to the Birth of the Virgin 

 is that of the Sposalizio. There is no figure 

 here which suggests Tabachetti, but still there 

 are some very good ones. The best have no 

 taint of barocco ; the man who did them, who- 

 ever he may have been, had evidently a good 

 deal of life and go, was taking reasonable 

 pains, and did not know too much. Where 

 this is the case no work can fail to please. 

 Some of the figures have real hair and some 

 terra cotta. There is no fresco background 

 worth mentioning. A man sitting on the steps 

 of the altar with a book on his lap, and holding 

 up his hand to another, who is leaning over 



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