The thirteenth chapel is the Marriage Feast at Cana of Galilee.
This is the best chapel as a work of art; indeed, it is the only one
which can claim to be taken quite seriously. Not that all the
figures are very good; those to the left of the composition are
commonplace enough; nor are the Christ and the giver of the feast at
all remarkable; but the ten or dozen figures of guests and
attendants at the right-hand end of the work are as good as anything
of their kind can be, and remind me so strongly of Tabachetti that I
cannot doubt they were done by someone who was indirectly influenced
by that great sculptor's work. It is not likely that Tabachetti was
alive long after 1640, by which time he would have been about eighty
years old; and the foundations of this chapel were not laid till
about 1690; the statues are probably a few years later; they can
hardly, therefore, be by one who had even studied under Tabachetti;
but until I found out the dates, and went inside the chapel to see
the way in which the figures had been constructed, I was inclined to
think they might be by Tabachetti himself, of whom, indeed, they are
not unworthy.
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