Art and Science 



impossible art of composing many figures 

 together effectively in all-round sculpture. 

 Whether all the figures are even now as 

 Tabachetti left them I cannot determine, but 

 Mr. Selwyn has restored Simon the Cyrenian 

 to the position in which he obviously ought 

 to stand, and between us we have got the 

 chapel into something more like order. 



10. The Crucifixion. This subject was 

 treated at Varallo not by Tabachetti but by 

 Gaudenzio Ferrari. It confirms therefore my 

 opinion as to the designer of the Saas chapels 

 to find in them no trace of the Varallo Cruci- 

 fixion, while the kind of tunic which at Varallo 

 is only found in chapels wherein Tabachetti 

 worked again appears here. The work is in 

 a deplorable state of decay. Mr. Selwyn 

 has greatly improved the arrangement of the 

 figures, but even now they are not, I imagine, 

 quite as Tabachetti left them. The figure of 

 Christ is greatly better in technical execution 

 than that of either of the two thieves ; the 

 folds of the drapery alone will show this even 

 to an unpractised eye. I do not think there 



can be a doubt but that Tabachetti cut this 



165 



