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CHAPTER VIII.
CASTEL D ASSO.
We went for the night to a very comfortable and
well-provided inn at Viterbo, and we spent the
hours before evening fell, in visiting its three fine
churches, with their excellent paintings; particu-
larly the least rich in other ornaments of the trio,
but which was immediately behind the hotel, and
contained one of the best pictures in Italy. A
" Sebastian del Piombo," representing our dead
Saviour after his deposition from the cross. It is a
work of the very highest merit and purest style of
composition, and is well suited to the peculiar
colouring of Sebastiano; we saw it both by day-
light and by torch-light, and I think preferred the
latter. Viterbo would well repay a residence of two
days—the one to see the vicinity, and the other it-
self, and the numerous works of art and science it
possesses, which are seldom visited, and very little
CHAPTER VIII.
CASTEL D ASSO.
We went for the night to a very comfortable and
well-provided inn at Viterbo, and we spent the
hours before evening fell, in visiting its three fine
churches, with their excellent paintings; particu-
larly the least rich in other ornaments of the trio,
but which was immediately behind the hotel, and
contained one of the best pictures in Italy. A
" Sebastian del Piombo," representing our dead
Saviour after his deposition from the cross. It is a
work of the very highest merit and purest style of
composition, and is well suited to the peculiar
colouring of Sebastiano; we saw it both by day-
light and by torch-light, and I think preferred the
latter. Viterbo would well repay a residence of two
days—the one to see the vicinity, and the other it-
self, and the numerous works of art and science it
possesses, which are seldom visited, and very little