. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . striking object in the interior isthe magnificent Eomanesque baldachin above the high is supported on four marble shafts, and has a semi-circular arch on each face, with figures and foliage in thefour flat pediments or gables which finish it above. Threeflights of five stej)s lead up to the altar from the north,south, and west, and the whole is protected both on the eastand the west by high metal screens. Here is a splendidshrine for the relics of the tutelar saint, of the same age asthe early church, whic
. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . striking object in the interior isthe magnificent Eomanesque baldachin above the high is supported on four marble shafts, and has a semi-circular arch on each face, with figures and foliage in thefour flat pediments or gables which finish it above. Threeflights of five stej)s lead up to the altar from the north,south, and west, and the whole is protected both on the eastand the west by high metal screens. Here is a splendidshrine for the relics of the tutelar saint, of the same age asthe early church, which is however so jealously concealedthat I have never seen it.^ The front of the altar itself isvery magnificent, executed entirely in metal, and containingsubjects from the life of Our Blessed Lord and from that ofS. Ambrose. A modernized dome rises above the baldachin;and behind this an apse decorated in mosaic upon a gold groundvery grandly finishes the interior of tliis interesting churcli. Sec, for description of it. Hcmans i\I(ili;cval Cliristianity, &c., p. J? 5$. BftLD^CHIJ^. S.;^y^BI\0<^IO. ]^nLi^]C. p. 326. Chap. XI].] STA. MARIA DELLE GRAZIE. 327 Oil tlio north side of the nave is a very curious pulpit,coeval with the church and remarkable for its carvincs, andfor a Eoman sarcophagus which occupies the space betweentlie columns which support it. From Sant Ambrogio I made my way under a burningsun to what I expected to find a very interesting church,that of Sant Eustorgio. I was, howevei, very much disap-pointed ; the interior is abominably modernized, though stillretaining enough of its old Romanesque features to beintelligible if carefully studied, and remarkable for manyancient monuments on its walls. It has nave, aisles, andchapels beyond the aisles, the whole groined, and there is aprodigious ascent to the choir, which is raised upon a crypt. That for which it ought to be visited is the. exquisitemonument to S. Peter Martyr, executed by G. Balduccio daPisa,
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