Giotto and Frate Angelico, have been very well imitated by Steinle and
others of the German school : the Kaffaelesque feeling has been in
general aimed at by the French and English painters. Tenerani had
the old mosaics in his mind when he conceived that magnificent colossal
Angel of the Kesnrrection seated on a tomb, and waiting for the signal
to sound his trumpet, which I saw in his attelier, prepared I believe for
the monument of the Duchess LantiJ

I pause here, for I have dwelt upon these celestial Hierarchies,
winged Splendours, Princedoms, Virtues, Powers, till my fency is
becoming somewhat mazed and dazzled by the contemplation. I must
leave the reader to go into a picture-gallery, or look over a portfolio of
engravings, and so pursue the theme, whithersoever it may lead him,
and it mat/ lead him, in Hamlet's words, ^^ to thoughts beyond the
reaches of his soul I " ^

' It is now in the Lanti chapel in the church of the Lateran.
