An artist in Italy . r, and mighteasily be mistaken for those of Botticelli. A panel byTaddeo di Bartolo portrays St. Gimignanus enthroned,with a model of the town, and also depicts the miraclesthat saint is said to have wrought j in one he is appear-ing on the walls, driving back Attila and his hordes. We descend to the picturesque court with frag-ments of frescoes and armorial bearings, and from thiswe are taken into the Cappella delle Carceri to see thefresco by Sodoma. There may be some good workbeneath the layers of paint since added. Let us hopethat it was not one of his great achievemen
An artist in Italy . r, and mighteasily be mistaken for those of Botticelli. A panel byTaddeo di Bartolo portrays St. Gimignanus enthroned,with a model of the town, and also depicts the miraclesthat saint is said to have wrought j in one he is appear-ing on the walls, driving back Attila and his hordes. We descend to the picturesque court with frag-ments of frescoes and armorial bearings, and from thiswe are taken into the Cappella delle Carceri to see thefresco by Sodoma. There may be some good workbeneath the layers of paint since added. Let us hopethat it was not one of his great achievements, and solessen our disgust at the shocking restorations. The pleasure of our visit to the Communal Palacewas much enhanced by the well-informed custodianwho showed us round. Some of the rooms now forma museum, and contain many interesting relics of thetown ; amongst these is a revolving urn, somethingsimilar to a coffee-roaster, used when the balloting forthe Podesta took place. 220 PORTONE DEI BECCI, SAN GIMIGNANO. CHAPTER XVIII THE COLLEGIATA OF SAN GIMIGNANO, ANDTHE STORY OF SANTA FINA How can I follow in the footsteps of my Saviour ?—how can I mostresemble Him ?—Prayer of S. Fina. THE principal church (often erroneously called theDuomo) is the Collegiata. San Gimignano,being in the diocese of the Bishop of Colle, isnot a cathedral town, but its pieve was raised to thedignity of a collegiate church, or Propositura in 1056,and it still has its number of canons and a seminary fordivinity students. The Proposto^ or Provost, is thehead of the college and the highest ecclesiastical digni-tary of the commune. His house, of which we givean illustration, is in a retired square behind theCommunal Palace, and is a beautiful example ofmediaeval domestic architecture. The exterior of thechurch is disappointing ; simplicity is carried to theextreme—a gable end with a circular window and tworectangular doors. But let us step inside, and we findhere an entire interior covered with
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