An artist in Italy . th country-folk who come to seethe Palio. The crowd is then so dense that thepavement might as well have been covered for all onecan see of it. Every guide-book gives the details anddescribes the subjects, so we need not enlarge on ithere. Leaving the cathedral by the south door at theangle of the nave and transept, we see the skeleton ofa huge construction in an alignment with the is as far as the builders got in 1339 with theproposed new plan of their Duomo. It was to havebeen the nave j and the existing one would then haveserved as a transept, the present
An artist in Italy . th country-folk who come to seethe Palio. The crowd is then so dense that thepavement might as well have been covered for all onecan see of it. Every guide-book gives the details anddescribes the subjects, so we need not enlarge on ithere. Leaving the cathedral by the south door at theangle of the nave and transept, we see the skeleton ofa huge construction in an alignment with the is as far as the builders got in 1339 with theproposed new plan of their Duomo. It was to havebeen the nave j and the existing one would then haveserved as a transept, the present north transept beingconverted into the choir. The ambition of the Sieneseto have the largest cathedral in existence was neverrealised. The terrible plague, known as the BlackDeath, raged for six months in Siena during 1348 andcarried off three-quarters of the population, and atits termination neither the means nor the desire existedto carry on the work of the projected enlargements. 112 THE BAPTISTERY OF S. GIOVANNI.
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