hunting-frieze

Updated: August 13, 2026

I turned into all the churches taking care, however, to pause before one of them, though before which I now irrecoverably forget, for verification of Ruskin's so characteristically magnified rapture over the high and rather narrow and obscure hunting-frieze on its front and in the Cathedral paid my respects at every turn to the greatest of Lucchesi, Matteo Civitale, wisest, sanest, homeliest, kindest of <i>quattro-cento</i> sculptors, to whose works the Duomo serves almost as a museum.

Henry James - Italian Hours