. A stained glass tour in Italy. ordinated to a generalscheme of decoration;—one must mount up tohis eyrie-like city and see what he has done tomake the charming, nest-like hall of its Chamber ofCommerce unique among mercantile council ceiling and walls of this modest-sized chamberare covered with frescoes of such excellence as toprove that here his genius and his local pride workedhand in hand. The studied calm of Peruginospictures becomes all the more striking when onelearns of the riotous scenes amidst which the painterlived and worked, for Perugia has the bloodiesthistory of the
. A stained glass tour in Italy. ordinated to a generalscheme of decoration;—one must mount up tohis eyrie-like city and see what he has done tomake the charming, nest-like hall of its Chamber ofCommerce unique among mercantile council ceiling and walls of this modest-sized chamberare covered with frescoes of such excellence as toprove that here his genius and his local pride workedhand in hand. The studied calm of Peruginospictures becomes all the more striking when onelearns of the riotous scenes amidst which the painterlived and worked, for Perugia has the bloodiesthistory of the bloody Italian Middle Ages. TheBaglioni family were not content to drive out allrival nobles from the city, but they must needs fallupon each other in a manner so blood-thirsty and socallously planned as to exceed even the ruthlesstraditions of the local nobility. Fortunately forthose interested in the gentle sport of murder, theBaglioni was such a numerous family as to pro-vide in themselves ample material for indulging in 54. EAST WINDOW OF ST. DOMINIC, PERUGIAThe glass in this huge embrasure has heen so much restored as to lose most ofits value. It is, however, typical of early 15th century window construction, andalso shows the undecorated condition in which Italian exteriors were often left. Perugia extended fratricide. In the midst of all this tumultand blood spilling, Perugino calmly continued topaint his peaceful scenes, and with him studiedthe great Raphael, who later on shows us thathe was not forgetful of his early environment byintroducing into his frescoes of the Vatican StanzaAstorre Saglioni, the most beautiful and perhapsthe most foully murdered of that murderousrace. He appears as Heliodorus being chasedfrom the Temple by angels. In passing, it may bepermitted to the author, doglike to bay themoon,—the scale of drawing used for Helio-dorus is strangely out of harmony with that of hischastisers. In the Duomo at Perugia, just on the rightas you enter, is a wi
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