Art and Science 



dreadful knife for the Circumcision chapel. 

 They had none last winter. What they have 

 now got would do very well to kill a bullock 

 with, but could not be used professionally with 

 safety for any animal smaller than a rhinoceros. 

 I imagine that some one was sent to Novara 

 to buy a knife, and that, thinking it was for 

 the Massacre of the Innocents chapel, he got 

 the biggest he could see. Then when he 

 brought it back people said "chow" several 

 times, and put it upon the table and went 

 away. 



Returning to Montrigone, the Simeon is an 

 excellent figure, and the Virgin is fairly good, 

 but the prophetess Anna, who stands just be- 

 hind her, is by far the most interesting in the 

 group, and is alone enough to make me feel 

 sure that Tabachetti gave more or less help 

 here, as he had done years before at Orta. 

 She, too, like the Virgin's grandmother, is a 

 widow lady, and wears collars of a cut that 

 seems to have prevailed ever since the Virgin 

 was born some twenty years previously. There 

 is a largeness and simplicity of treatment about 

 the figure to which none but an artist of the 



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