In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . he stories ofSt. Francis and the two St. Johns, are in the firsttwo chapels to the right of the apse, and TaddeoGaddis of the life of the Virgin and the Christ Childare in the Baroncelli chapel in the south the Giotto frescoes only the drawing and com-position can now be fairly attributed to the master, forthe colors are mostly the restorers, although follow-ing, of course, Giottos tints. The pictures can be seenvery well, especially the lower ones, and next to themasters work at Padua and Assisi are his most im-port
In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . he stories ofSt. Francis and the two St. Johns, are in the firsttwo chapels to the right of the apse, and TaddeoGaddis of the life of the Virgin and the Christ Childare in the Baroncelli chapel in the south the Giotto frescoes only the drawing and com-position can now be fairly attributed to the master, forthe colors are mostly the restorers, although follow-ing, of course, Giottos tints. The pictures can be seenvery well, especially the lower ones, and next to themasters work at Padua and Assisi are his most im-portant series. With eyes filled by the piety and sweetness ofSanta Croces tombs and frescoes, one is likely toforget that it was this same great House of the Lordthat housed the Florentine tribunal of the Inquisitionand that was the plotting and bloodthirsty centerof the clerical antagonism to Savonarola. One maywander slowly through the Medici chapel (built forCosimo by Michelozzo) and the Pazzi chapel in thecloisters and through the great and lesser refectories,. Detail of the PulpitBenedetto da Maiano: Santa Croce The Larger Churches loi and, If he have good eyes, behold the movingscenes of Florentine history that passed here; thePazzis plotting the Medici murder in the Duomo;the masked inquisitors condemning Acco dAscoli andTommaso Crudeli to the pyre and holding theirhorrors so vividly before persecuted Galileo that forthe moment the flesh overcomes the reason. Servite Santissima Annunziata, the richest churchin the city, and Augustinian Santo Spirito, thechurch of the beautiful lines, may be referred to withsome brevity, Santo Spirito is a fifteenth centurychurch of Brunelleschis design. Its beautiful cam-panile across the river grows more and more loved themore often it is seen—and all the dwellers along thenorth bank of the Arno from Ponte Vecchio to theCascine see it every time they look from their win-dows. Its fagade is unfinished-—a pleasing relief
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