Art and Science 



Tabachetti at Varallo, but whenever he treats 

 a subject which Tabachetti had treated at 

 Varallo, as in the Flagellation, Crowning 

 with Thorns, and Journey to Calvary chapels, 

 the work at Saas is evidently nothing but 

 a somewhat modified abridgement .'of that at 

 Varallo. When, however, as in the Annun- 

 ciation, the Nativity, the Crucifixion, and 

 other chapels, the work at Varallo is by 

 another than Tabachetti, no allusion is made 

 to it. The Saas artist has Tabachetti's Varallo 

 work at his finger-ends, but betrays no ac- 

 quaintance whatever with Gaudenzio Ferrari, 

 Gio. Ant. Paracca, or Giovanni D'Enrico. 



Even, moreover, when Tabachetti's work 

 at Varallo is being most obviously drawn 

 from, as in the Journey to Calvary chapel, 

 the Saas version differs materially from that 

 at Varallo, and is in some respects an im- 

 provement on it. The idea of showing 

 other horsemen and followers coming up from 

 behind, whose heads can be seen over the 

 crown of the interposing hill, is singularly 

 effective as suggesting a number of others 

 that are unseen, nor can I conceive that any 



