It Is Plain, Therefore, That When The Facciata Paired The Original
Fresco Was Preserved; It Cannot Be, As I Had Supposed, The Work Of
A Local Painter Who Had Taken His Ideas Of Rocks And Trees From The
Frescoes Inside The Church.
That I am right in supposing the
curious blanc-mange-mould-looking objects on either side St.
Christopher's legs
To be intended for rocks will be clear to any
one who has seen the frescoes inside the church, where mountains
with trees and towns upon them are treated on exactly the same
principle. I cannot think the artist can have been quite easy in
his mind about them.
On entering the church the left-hand wall is found to be covered
with the most remarkable series of frescoes in the Italian Grisons.
They are disposed in three rows, one above the other, occupying the
whole wall of the church as far as the chancel. The top row
depicts a series of incidents prior to the Crucifixion, and is cut
up by the pulpit at the chancel end. These events are treated so
as to form a single picture.
The second row is in several compartments. There is a saint in
armour on horseback, life-size, killing a dragon, and a queen who
seems to have been leading the dragon by a piece of red tape
buckled round its neck - unless, indeed, the dragon is supposed to
have been leading the queen. The queen still holds the tape and
points heavenward.
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