. Italian wall decorations of the 15th and 16th centuries : A handbook to the models, illustrating interiors of Italian buildings, in the Victoria and Albert museum, South Kensington. more than two centuries had hidden itsmural pictures. At the same time it was decided to placeBalduccios sculptured sarcophagus in a better place, forin the small square recess which served as the choir of thechapel, the position to which it was removed in 1736, it wasdeprived of the greater part of its effect. Allegranza hadalready declared his disapproval of the placing of thesarcophagus away from the body of t
. Italian wall decorations of the 15th and 16th centuries : A handbook to the models, illustrating interiors of Italian buildings, in the Victoria and Albert museum, South Kensington. more than two centuries had hidden itsmural pictures. At the same time it was decided to placeBalduccios sculptured sarcophagus in a better place, forin the small square recess which served as the choir of thechapel, the position to which it was removed in 1736, it wasdeprived of the greater part of its effect. Allegranza hadalready declared his disapproval of the placing of thesarcophagus away from the body of the church where itwas partly hidden behind the altar, and Bianconi in hisMS. text Raccolta di disegni delle chiese ed edifizi antichi diMilano, Vol. V., observed that the monument placed at theback of the chapel, lost thereby no little of its originalsymmetrical- beauty. To bring forward the monument inorder that it might stand free in the body of the chapelwas an obvious improvement, but where to place it withinthat space was a question which raised a lively geometrical centre of the chapel was proposed, butfortunately that too academic suggestion was dropped,. The Martyrdom of the Saint. THE CHURCH OF ST. EUSTORGIO, MILAN. 31 and Balduccios sarcophagus, removed from the narrowaltar-recess, was re-erected upon the longitudinal axis ofthe chapel, but not on the precise centre of that axis,being placed so that it is well lighted by the lateralwindows. A few words concerning the restorations of the last twentyyears conclude this notice. The most important item, the removal of the layer of white-wash that covered the paintings, was conducted with theutmost care, and the results are beyond anything hoped , as already asserted in regard to other instances, thewhitewash has actually served to preserve the frescoes fromthe re-touching, and barbarous restorations to which theywould have been only too certainly exposed during theseventeenth and eighteenth centur
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