. The story of Verona . generally shown to visitors. Several palaces belonging to the old patrician familiesof Verona are to be found in the neighbourhood ofthe Duomo. In the Via Pigna stands the PalazzoMiniscalchi, the work of the great architect MicheleSan Micheli, and adorned externally with latter which have suffered outrageously at thehands of would-be restorers were originally by Torbido,and ranked as some of the best work he ever did inthat way. The rest are by Giambattista Zeloti. Not far from the Duomo stands the church of StAnastasia, a church that owes its being to th
. The story of Verona . generally shown to visitors. Several palaces belonging to the old patrician familiesof Verona are to be found in the neighbourhood ofthe Duomo. In the Via Pigna stands the PalazzoMiniscalchi, the work of the great architect MicheleSan Micheli, and adorned externally with latter which have suffered outrageously at thehands of would-be restorers were originally by Torbido,and ranked as some of the best work he ever did inthat way. The rest are by Giambattista Zeloti. Not far from the Duomo stands the church of StAnastasia, a church that owes its being to theDominicans, to Guglielmo da Castelbarco, to Albertodella Scala, and to Pietro Scaligero, bishop of church is a beautiful example of the brick andmarble work that abounds to such a remarkable extentin Verona, and dates from the second half of thethirteenth century. The fagade of unfinished brick-work is rich in mouldings and decorations—equally ofbrick—and sets off the fine portal which leads into the160. I .;* ;¥ .■f^y- --^^^#^r3l^^# —i ,PE= ■-■4 CIIUKCH OF ST ANASTASIA FROM THE ADIGE SHEWING THE HOUSESWHICH STOOD THERE BEFORE THE muraglioni, BUILT TO DEFENDTHE TOWN AGAINST THE INUNDATIONS OF THE ADIGE, WEREERECTED i6i Sant Ajiastasia church, and which is bilateral. The great woodendouble doors are very fine, and the carvings in marble,together with the frescoes in the lunettes above, givea sense of great richness and finish to this principalentrance of the church, in spite of the incompletecondition of the facade. The original plan wasevidently to have faced it all with slabs of marble,or more probably with panels in relief, to some extentno doubt like those now seen at the side representingscenes from the life of St Peter Martyr. Theselatter however are of a later date than the brickworkof the fa(;ade, as is also the Renaissance ornamentationround the doors. The interior is dignified and fine, consisting of anave and two narrow side aisles, separated
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