VII.—The Cult of St. Oswald in Northern Italy
Eric Baker
Five buildings in Venice are cited by Ruskin as illustra ‘the last degradation of the Renaissance. San Moisé is most clumsy, Santa Maria Zobenigo impious, St.Eustachio ridiculous Ospedaletto monstrous, and head at Formosa foul.’ In respect, however, St. Eustachio (or S. Stae it known Venetian dialect), verdict mitigated on a later page, where we told that church remarkable for dramatic effect group sculpture its façade. Would this effect, wonder, have been further enlivened had he aware ‘our own Saxon Oswald’ (as speaks him elsewhere with touch affection) was represented large baroque statue niche left-hand side?
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