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Turning to the individual chapels they are 

 as follows : 



1. The Annunciation. The treatment here 

 presents no more analogy to that of the same 

 subject at Varallo than is inevitable in the 

 nature of the subject. The Annunciation 

 figures at Varallo have proved to be mere 

 draped dummies with wooden heads ; Taba- 

 chetti, even though he did the heads, which he 

 very likely did, would take no interest in the 

 Varallo work with the same subject. The 

 Annunciation, from its very simplicity as well 

 as from the transcendental nature of the sub- 

 ject, is singularly hard to treat, and the work 

 here, whatever it may once have been, is now 

 no longer remarkable. 



2. The Salutation of Mary by Elizabeth. 

 This group, again, bears no analogy to the 

 Salutation chapel at Varallo, in which Taba- 

 chetti's share was so small that it cannot be 

 considered as in any way his. It is not to be 

 expected, therefore, that the Saas chapel 

 should follow the Varallo one. The figures, 

 four in number, are pleasing and well arranged. 

 St. Joseph, St. Elizabeth, and St. Zacharias 



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