Art and Science 



highly from some standpoints, there are 

 others from which it may be praised warmly 

 enough. It is innocent of anatomy-worship, 

 free from affectation or swagger, and not de- 

 void of a good deal of homely naivete. It 

 can no more be compared with Tabachetti or 

 Donatello than Hogarth can with Rembrandt 

 or Giovanni Bellini ; but as it does not tran- 

 scend the limitations of its age, so neither is 

 it wanting in whatever merits that age pos- 

 sessed ; and there is no age without merits of 

 some kind. There is no inscription saying 

 who made the figures, but tradition gives 

 them to Pietro Aureggio Termine, of Biella, 

 commonly called Aureggio. This is con- 

 firmed by their strong resemblance to those 

 in the Dimora Chapel, in which there is 

 an inscription that names Aureggio as the 

 sculptor. 



The sixth chapel deals with the Presentation 

 of the Virgin in the Temple. The Virgin is 

 very small, but it must be remembered that she 

 is only seven years old, and she is not nearly 

 so small as she is at Crea, where, though a 

 life-sized figure is intended, the head is hardly 



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