In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . the large ries and the smallerones; categories not based on esthetic distinctions,to be sure, but on easily seized and much-used not Americans alone use size and cost as distinc-tions of interest and merit. As one walks down thelong nave of St. Peters one sees marks that indicatewhere various other great cathedral naves wouldreach; here Milan, here St. Pauls, here Cologne,silent witnesses to the material bigness of this churchof the Popes. There are not four hundred churches in Florence,as my hard-working tourist friend
In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . the large ries and the smallerones; categories not based on esthetic distinctions,to be sure, but on easily seized and much-used not Americans alone use size and cost as distinc-tions of interest and merit. As one walks down thelong nave of St. Peters one sees marks that indicatewhere various other great cathedral naves wouldreach; here Milan, here St. Pauls, here Cologne,silent witnesses to the material bigness of this churchof the Popes. There are not four hundred churches in Florence,as my hard-working tourist friend, Mr. Smith, thinkshe found in Rome. Indeed, in the group of largerchurches there are but five besides the Duomo,namely: Santa Croce, San Lorenzo, Santa MariaNovella, Santissima Annunziata, and Santo smaller ones are fifty, more or less, of which theBadia, Or San Michele, Santa Trinita, Ognissanti,San Marco, Santa Maria del Carmine, Santi Apos-toli, and Sant Ambrogio are most interesting eitherbecause of their beauty of architecture, or of their go. Photo. Brogi Virgin and St. Benedict Filippino Lippi: Badia The Small Churches 91 contained treasures of painting and sculpture. How-ever, the special Interest of San Marco Church Isneither that of form nor interior frescoes andstatues, but wholly an interest of historical associa-tion. It Is the church of the monastery of Savona-rola and Fra Angellco. No one can be looking at Florence through spec-tacles more golden than mine just now, and yet It Ishard for me to see in the Florence churches, especiallyin the larger and more pretentious ones, anything ofthe warmth or beauty of gold. That is. In the formand finish of the buildings themselves. There areno rarer or more beautiful church contents of fres-coes and paintings, pulpits and tombs anywhere. Somany were the Florentine geniuses of art, and soprodigal were they of their labors, that there Ishardly any least church in the city but has someprecious picture or marble.
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