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work is full of spontaneous incident, and 

 cannot fail to become more and more interest- 

 ing as the age it renders falls farther back 

 into the past. It is to be regretted that many 

 artists, better known men, have not been 

 satisfied with the humbler ambitions of this 

 most amiable and interesting sculptor. If he 

 has left us no laboured life-studies, he has at 

 least done something for us which we can 

 find nowhere else, which we should be very 

 sorry not to have, and the fidelity of which 

 to Italian life at the beginning of the last 

 century will not be disputed. 



The eighth chapel is that of the Sposalizio, 

 is certainly not by Aureggio, and I should say 

 was mainly by the same sculptor who did the 

 Presentation in the Temple. On going inside 

 I found the figures had come from more than 

 one source ; some of them are constructed so 

 absolutely on Valsesian principles, as regards 

 technique, that it may be assumed they came 

 from Varallo. Each of these last figures is in 

 three pieces, that are baked separately and 

 cemented together afterwards, hence they are 



more easily transported ; no more clay is used 



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