. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . 292 ALPS AND SANCTUARIES. when seen from close at hand. The sketch I givedoes not convey the notion—as what sketch can con-vey it ?—that one is at a great elevation, and it is thiswhich gives its especial charm to S. Maria in approach to the church is beautiful, and thechurch itself full of interest. The village was evidentlyat one time a place of some importance, though it is not easy to under-stand how it cameto be built in such asituation. Even nowit is unaccountablylarge. There is noaccommodation forsleeping, b
. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . 292 ALPS AND SANCTUARIES. when seen from close at hand. The sketch I givedoes not convey the notion—as what sketch can con-vey it ?—that one is at a great elevation, and it is thiswhich gives its especial charm to S. Maria in approach to the church is beautiful, and thechurch itself full of interest. The village was evidentlyat one time a place of some importance, though it is not easy to under-stand how it cameto be built in such asituation. Even nowit is unaccountablylarge. There is noaccommodation forsleeping, but anartist who couldrough it would, Ithink, find a gooddeal that he would. STA. MARIA, APPROACH TO CHURCH. like. I subjoin a sketch of the church and tower asseen from the opposite side to that from which thesketch on p. 292 was taken. The church seems to have been very much altered,if indeed the body of it was not entirely rebuilt, in 1618-—a date which is found on a pillar inside the church. S. BERNARDINO. 293 On going up into the gallery at the west end of thechurch, there is found a nativity painted in fresco bya local artist, one Agostino Duso of Roveredo, in theyear 1727, and better by a good deal than one wouldanticipate from the epoch and habitat of the the other side of the same gallery there is a death
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