In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . an entranceto the old cloisters of a small order of friars, theScalzi, where an extensive series of wall frescoes inchiaroscuro representing scenes from the life of Johnthe Baptist may be seen. To lovers or students of theworks of Andrea del Sarto this must prove an inter-esting group of pictures, as all of them with the ex-ception of three are reputed to be the personal workof this artist. But to the sightseer of less personalinterest in this curiously overpraised and over-derided master they will not seem so
In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . an entranceto the old cloisters of a small order of friars, theScalzi, where an extensive series of wall frescoes inchiaroscuro representing scenes from the life of Johnthe Baptist may be seen. To lovers or students of theworks of Andrea del Sarto this must prove an inter-esting group of pictures, as all of them with the ex-ception of three are reputed to be the personal workof this artist. But to the sightseer of less personalinterest in this curiously overpraised and over-derided master they will not seem so their failure to please lies in the lack ofcolor, for the chief attraction of this artist to mostpicture-lovers lies exactly in his fascinating richnessof coloring. Finally, to close this Incomplete record of straypictures on monastery walls in Florence, I must makereference to that haunt of aromatic fragrance, thatsublimated drug shop, unique in the world, the Spe-zeria (No. 14, Via della Scala) of Santa MariaNovella. Here in the little old sacristy, odorous. Stray Pictures on Monastery Walls 183 now with a hundred perfumes, is a series of frescoesby Spinello Aretino that are well worth the are as fragrant with color, freely restoredthough they may be, as the airs of the room are withessences. The pleasantest way to reward the drug-gist for your permission to wander at will in hisrooms of color and odor is to buy from him a littlepackage of orris root powder. There is no better inFlorence. CHAPTER XIV THE SCULPTORS FROM THE HILL-SIDEQUARRIES ON the precipitous eastern face of Monte Ceceri,that high hill over Fiesole, one sees many darkcaverns, and going in and out of them, and thread-ing narrow shelving paths and roads among them,many men and carts and horses and donkeys. Theseare the great quarries from which, age-long, the free-stone has come for the pillars and palaces of as one drives or rides by tram to Fiesole orMaiano or Settignano, he sees b
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