In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . ^^^q°J^^]. Santa Maria Novella, the great Dominican church that stilldominates the now almost deserted piazza. the chariots in their mad course in the limited spaceof the piazza making their dangerous turns about thegoal pillars; all is very live. Over this scene lifts the great Dominican churchthat still dominates the now almost deserted piazza,with its two pillars standing forlornly memorial ofthe old gay days. Perhaps the tomb niches in thefacade and adjoining arcades were full then; they I04 The Larger Churches are empty now
In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . ^^^q°J^^]. Santa Maria Novella, the great Dominican church that stilldominates the now almost deserted piazza. the chariots in their mad course in the limited spaceof the piazza making their dangerous turns about thegoal pillars; all is very live. Over this scene lifts the great Dominican churchthat still dominates the now almost deserted piazza,with its two pillars standing forlornly memorial ofthe old gay days. Perhaps the tomb niches in thefacade and adjoining arcades were full then; they I04 The Larger Churches are empty now. And the fagade then could nothave been so roughened by weather and grimed bysmoke and dust as it is to-day. But it is still abeautiful front; certainly more beautiful than thatof any other Florence church. Within there is a softness of light and a fairopenness that compensate for the uninteresting fea-tures that line the long nave. Only one of these ar-rests attention: Bernardo Rossellinos monument ofthe Beata Villana (right aisle near the second altar;formerly in the R
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