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Title: Plain-towns of Italy : the cities of old Venetia
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Williams, Egerton R. (Egerton Ryerson), b. 1873 Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Cities and towns
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co. Cambridge (Mass.) : Riverside Press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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, aspiring nave, long and very lofty, soaredupon glistening white columns and pointed arches to agroined vaulting, whose cells, as well as the soffits ofthe arches, were covered with that remarkable andlovely frescoing in designs, of the early quattrocento,which is unique in Late-Gothic work. The lofty aisles,likewise handsomely groined and painted, bore theirside altars affixed directly to the walls; the dim lightpercolated from lancet windows; and behind the gleam-ing high-altar under the distant triumphal arch, theshort choir ended in a graceful apse. The church wasfilled with exceptional works of art. By the first twocolumns crouched two curious marble figures of hunch-backs, bearing holy-water basins on their shoulders,of which the left one was by Paolo Veroneses father.The right transept contained §ome remarkable paint-ings: a St. Paul by Cavazzola, of striking power andcoloring, a Madonna and Saints by Girolamo dai Libri— one of the most beautiful and perfect pietistic works
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VERONA. VIRGIN AND CHILD ENTHRONED. (GIROLAMO DAI LIBRI.) VERONA LA MARMORINA 367 I have ever seen; and, in the second chapel to the rightof the choir, a superb example of Altichieri, that isabout the only one now remaining to Verona. This isa fresco representing a number of mailed knightskneeling before the Madonna, strong in composition,action, and lifelikeness, dignified, and impressive, —a brilliant exposition of his wonderful powers. As forthe Girolamo, — I have kept a photograph of itsfascinating beauty, with every detail like a cameo, setup in my room wherever I have gone, from that dayto this. In the next chapel were three rare examples of Mar-tini, D Avanzo, and Stefano da Zevio, and high uponthe transept wall over the chapel arch, one of the tworemaining frescoes by the latters master, Pisanello,representing St. George mounting his charger afterthe death of the dragon. Though greatly injured bythe damp, which has removed the saints figure and thewhole left side of the pi

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