In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . A street fountain in Stia. in the little Chiesa di San Martino a Vado, nearStrado, on the highroad (left) from Borgo aliaCollina, they are especially naive. There are twelvepillars or columns in this church, low, heavy, andbulging in the center, and the capitals are all differ-ent. Almost all show crude leaf (lotus?) designstogether with distorted animal or human are rams, grinning lions, monstrous winged In the Casentino 301 things, and a man on horseback with his feet touch-ing the groun
In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . A street fountain in Stia. in the little Chiesa di San Martino a Vado, nearStrado, on the highroad (left) from Borgo aliaCollina, they are especially naive. There are twelvepillars or columns in this church, low, heavy, andbulging in the center, and the capitals are all differ-ent. Almost all show crude leaf (lotus?) designstogether with distorted animal or human are rams, grinning lions, monstrous winged In the Casentino 301 things, and a man on horseback with his feet touch-ing the ground. The pulpit pillar has four humanfigures on the faces and four more on the parts of the figures are grossly and comicallyout of proportion. All these churches were foundedin the twelfth century,or perhaps latter halfof the eleventh, prob-ably by the CountessMatilda, a conspicuousfigure in early Casen-tino history. Herchurch building washer act of penitentialpiety, pro remedioanima, and the strangehalf-pagan carvingscharacteristic of themmay express the per-sonal fancy of th
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