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THE CEETOSA, NEAR PAVIA.
The flat part on the ceiling bears in the centre the abbreviation of
the word Grazia in a radiated circle. The lunettes are adorned with
vases of different shapes mixed with some light garlands and arabesques :
they are in gold colour upon a white ground. The second and smaller
division of the arched ceiling is of a different but very pleasing design.
The spaces filled in the former with the painted openings are here
occupied by little circlets with the letters GRA. for Grazia, and CAR, for
Caritas, and the dove, the symbol of the Holy Ghost ; they are fastened
and suspended by festoons of fruit ; the centre is again occupied with
the Sun of Divine Grace, surrounded with rays. The ribs are coloured
and adorned with some light patterns also in colour, of all which we have
given the details on a larger scale in the centre of the Plate.
In the lunettes of the narrow side of this arched ceiling is represented
Christ in the tomb, with Angels and two Saints painted in chiar-oscuro
upon a purple ground. Of the paintings on tlfe walls little remains ; it
appears from some slight traces, that in the larger division curtains were
painted in alternate perpendicular stripes of yellow and blue, as is the
case in the Monastero Maggiore in Plate XI. On the two sides of the
inner arch, dividing the two halls, are two large figures of St. Sebastian
and St. Christopher : they have been much injured. The walls of the
second division are in stone colour with a frieze of a Gothic pattern upon
a red ground, painted pilasters and medallions, with heads in the
spandrils. The plan of the church has the same letters of reference as
the following Plates.1
1 A and B are the side chapels from which the ceilings of Plate VIII. are taken ; D corresponding
with Plate IX., which contains the walls a b, and b c.
THE CEETOSA, NEAR PAVIA.
The flat part on the ceiling bears in the centre the abbreviation of
the word Grazia in a radiated circle. The lunettes are adorned with
vases of different shapes mixed with some light garlands and arabesques :
they are in gold colour upon a white ground. The second and smaller
division of the arched ceiling is of a different but very pleasing design.
The spaces filled in the former with the painted openings are here
occupied by little circlets with the letters GRA. for Grazia, and CAR, for
Caritas, and the dove, the symbol of the Holy Ghost ; they are fastened
and suspended by festoons of fruit ; the centre is again occupied with
the Sun of Divine Grace, surrounded with rays. The ribs are coloured
and adorned with some light patterns also in colour, of all which we have
given the details on a larger scale in the centre of the Plate.
In the lunettes of the narrow side of this arched ceiling is represented
Christ in the tomb, with Angels and two Saints painted in chiar-oscuro
upon a purple ground. Of the paintings on tlfe walls little remains ; it
appears from some slight traces, that in the larger division curtains were
painted in alternate perpendicular stripes of yellow and blue, as is the
case in the Monastero Maggiore in Plate XI. On the two sides of the
inner arch, dividing the two halls, are two large figures of St. Sebastian
and St. Christopher : they have been much injured. The walls of the
second division are in stone colour with a frieze of a Gothic pattern upon
a red ground, painted pilasters and medallions, with heads in the
spandrils. The plan of the church has the same letters of reference as
the following Plates.1
1 A and B are the side chapels from which the ceilings of Plate VIII. are taken ; D corresponding
with Plate IX., which contains the walls a b, and b c.