Identifier: citiesofromagnam00hutt (find matches)
Title: The cities of Romagna and the Marches
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Hutton, Edward, 1875-
Subjects: Cities and towns -- Italy Art -- Italy Romagna (Italy) -- Description and travel Marche (Italy) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Methuen
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ut the place is so dark, only lighted bythe many tapers of the shrine, that it is almost impossibleto see anything clearly. After seeing this wonderful shrine one has time toexamine the church, the roof of which is painted in grisailleby Luca Signorelli, but has grievously suffered fromrestoration. The church for the most part consists ofvarious chapels belonging to different nations and ad6rnedby them. It is perhaps unnecessary to add that Englandis not represented there. It is, however, in the Sacristies and the Treasury thatwhat remains to the church of its ancient splendour is to befound. To the right of the central chapel, in the righttransept, is the Sagrestia di S. Marco, over the entrance towhich is a beautiful terra-cotta of S. Luke by Luca dellaRobbia. Within, the sacristy is magnificently painted byMelozzo da Forli. This great master has painted the cupolato resemble architecture much as Michelangelo later paintedin the Sixtine Chapel. Here in the cupola the painter has set
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STATUE OF THK MADONNASanta Casa, l.oveto LORETO 175 eight windows through which angels enter bearing emblemsof the Passion, one the Cord with which Christ was scourgedand the bag of Money with which He was bought, anotherthe Chalice, another the Paschal Lamb, another the Cross,another the Column to which He was bound, another thePincers, another the Nails and Hammer, and the last abranch of Olive. Beneath the windows are figures of Davidand the Prophets, and the whole is so grand and gloriousthat one can never look at it long enough. Beneath is adelightful but somewhat spoiled fresco of the Entry ofChrist into Jerusalem, painted by Palmezzano afterdesigns by Melozzo da Forli. To the left of the transept chapel is the Sagrestia dellaCura, with a fine terra-cotta of S. Matthew by Luca dellaRobbia. Within, the sacristy is decorated by LucaSignorelli. Here, too, we have the cupola painted archi-tecturally and divided into eight compartments on whichwe see music-making angels, and beneath

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