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of them real hair, but, if I may say so, they 

 want a wash and a brush-up so very badly 

 that I cannot feel any confidence in writing 

 about them. I should say that, take them all 

 round, they are a good average sample of 

 apostle as apostles generally go. Two or 

 three of them are nervously anxious to find 

 appropriate quotations in books that lie open 

 before them, which they are searching with 

 eager haste; but I do not see one figure 

 about which I should like to say positively 

 that it is either good or bad. There is a good 

 bust of a man, matching the one in the Birth 

 of the Virgin chapel, which is said to be a 

 portrait of Giovanni d'Enrico, but it is not 

 known whom it represents. 



Outside the church, in three contiguous cells 

 that form part of the foundations, are : 



1. A dead Christ, the head of which is very 

 impressive, while the rest of the figure is poor. 

 I examined the treatment of the hair, which 

 is terra-cotta, and compared it with all other 

 like hair in the chapels above described ; I 

 could find nothing like it, and think it most 



likely that Giacomo Ferro did the figure, and 



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