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absorbed in love and reverence. The beautiful scheme of colour
is brought into harmony with the theme and treated with a care
and delicacy of execution that no one could display better than
Tintoretto when he chose. Glory streams from the little head and
lights up the face of the mother, bending tenderly and anxiously.
The detail is all admirable, the dim arches, within which burns a
brazen lamp, the gorgeous embroidery of the curtains, the table
with the sacred vessels. On the right is a row of four members
of the brotherhood more slightly painted than the rest, to mark
their subservience.
In the i Assumption ’ we still have a very majestic design, in
which the Madonna leans from out the clouds, upborne by a
splendid young angel, and the lovely circle of cherub heads which
surrounds her is still untouched, but the rest of the picture has
been daubed to destruction by a misguided restorer in 1834, who
was so well satisfied with his achievement that he has inscribed
his name Jn Ip^t^rs that all nrrncQ
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