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This work was also restored, or, as Abate Faluschi puts it with much truth, “modernized” (modernata) by Carlo Amidei and Matteo Pini in 1790, so that we cannot now know how much of the original work has perished. It is not unlikely that, in any case, it may have been a composite design from the hand of more than one artist. It is, however, worth noting that, whereas the design last described depends largely for its effect on varied colour, this one, the Expulsion of Herod, and the other contemporary picture of the Story of Jephthah, presently to be described, show how much can be done by the use of line alone.
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Ascending a wide step, we come to a work of much older and more archaic character, which I propose to include in my seventh division.