. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . 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 d
. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . 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. !^. 4i&.S,Z~*i. FRONT VIEW OF STA. MARIA. of the virgin, also by the same painter, but not sogood. On the left-hand side of the nave goingtowards the altar there is a remarkable picture ofthe battle of Lepanto, signed Georgius WilhelmusGrcesner Constantiensis fecit 1649, and with aninscription to the effect that it was painted for the 294 ALPS AND SANCTUARIES. confraternity of the most holy Rosary, and by themset up in this church of St. Mary commonly calledof Calancha. The picture displays very little respectfor academic principles, but is full of spirit and sensiblepainting. Above this picture there hang two others—also veryinteresting, from being examples of, as it were, the lastgroans of true art while being stifled by academicism—or it may be the attempt at a new birth, which wasnevertheless doomed to extinction by academicianswhile yet in its infancy. Such pictures are to befound all over Italy. Sometimes, as in the case ofthe work of Dedomenici, they have absolute
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