In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . nspicuous perhaps is the little parti-colored chapelor shrine built in the nave in 1448 by Michelozzofor Plero de Medici to inclose a marvelous cruci-fix, which was believed to have bowed its head toSan Giovanni Gualberto, as marlclng approval of hisgenerosity In sparing his brothers murderer. Theelaborate interior paneling Is said to be by Lucadella Robbla. But if this is the most conspicuous of the Renais-sance additions to the old basilica, more Interestingand important is the chapel of James, that mostvirtuous and admirable
In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . nspicuous perhaps is the little parti-colored chapelor shrine built in the nave in 1448 by Michelozzofor Plero de Medici to inclose a marvelous cruci-fix, which was believed to have bowed its head toSan Giovanni Gualberto, as marlclng approval of hisgenerosity In sparing his brothers murderer. Theelaborate interior paneling Is said to be by Lucadella Robbla. But if this is the most conspicuous of the Renais-sance additions to the old basilica, more Interestingand important is the chapel of James, that mostvirtuous and admirable young cardinal of Portugal,who died while visiting Florence In 1459. Thetomb is the masterpiece of Antonio Rossellino, andthe four tondi set In checkered green, white, andblack-tiled background are by Luca della recumbent figure of the cardinal and his pat-terned robes, and the figures of the two cherubs be-low his feet and head, are among the finest pro-ductions of the decorative school of stone-cuttersculptors. The tomb Is, however, somewhat marred. Photo. Alinari Tomb Monument of Cardinal Jacob of Portugal Antonio Rossellino: San Miniato San Miniato, Certosa, Signa 221 by the realistic drawn curtains, modeled in stone bythe sculptor. The beautiful black and white marble fagade ofthe church was done in 1491, and bears an interest-ing old mosaic in gold, restored in the fourteenth,and again in the fifteenth century. The campanile,begun in 1524 to take the place of an earlier smallone ruined in 1499, was still in process of construc-tion in 1530, when the siege of Florence took Miniato was the center of the defense of thecity, and all its old buildings, together with the for-tifications rapidly constructed under Michelangelosdirection, constituted a sort of fortress, which wasthe chief object of attack by Oranges army. Thetop of the campanile was broken off in order to per-mit the seating of two cannon, which did much tohold the besiegers in check, but whic
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