. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . orming so many courts in one room. At the oppositeend was a cage or prison, so that here, under one roof, withwalls covered with illustrations, sat all the courts of Padua,without any of those ingenious divisions and subdivisionswhich are now necessary for the administration of the verysmallest sort of justice, and it may be hoped with as muchhonesty as there certainly was simplicity. Now-a-days the hall is quite unused save as a receptaclefor lumber, of which the most remarkable example is the See also TietroBiaDclo
. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . orming so many courts in one room. At the oppositeend was a cage or prison, so that here, under one roof, withwalls covered with illustrations, sat all the courts of Padua,without any of those ingenious divisions and subdivisionswhich are now necessary for the administration of the verysmallest sort of justice, and it may be hoped with as muchhonesty as there certainly was simplicity. Now-a-days the hall is quite unused save as a receptaclefor lumber, of which the most remarkable example is the See also TietroBiaDclolesc, Sciiltuia, ritturu, &c., di Padova. Padova, 1795. Chap. VII.] GIOTTOS CHAPEL. 137 remnant of a gigantic horse made by Donatello to travel ourollers in some old Paduan pageant. From the Palazzo della Eagione, we found our way towhat must, so long as it lasts, be the great glory, as it isthe chief charm, of Padua—Giottos Chapel , founded in 1303, This stands in private grounds and on one side of a deso-late green walk which leads up to a private house to which it. ARENA CHAPEL—PADUA. now forms an appendage. From the first it was a little private chapel, and in no respect remarkable for size or costliness of 1 material or design. The plan is a simple oblong nave with ! an apsidal chancel, and a sacristy on the north side, and i nothing can be simpler than the exterior. The walls are of brick, divided into bays by narrow pilasters. The west door is round arched, as are also the windows. The interior is even more simple ; the whole nave has not a moulding, the 138 PADUA. [Chap. VIT. walls are continued on into the semicircular ceiling withoutany cornice, and all the ornament is added in colour. The windows all have a deep splay outside, very simplestone traceries, and glass fitted to wooden frames placed in-side against the stonework. There seem also to have beenshutters outside, for which the hooks still remain. A sort ofpenthouse, or perhaj)s a cloister-roof was carried
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