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The S. Lorenzo cloisters may be entered either from a side door in the church close to the Old Sacristy or from the piazza. Although an official in uniform keeps the piazza door, they are free. Brunelleschi is again the architect, and from the loggia at the entrance to the library you see most acceptably the whole of his cathedral dome and half of Giotto's tower.

Sumner and the young people in Santa Croce, her remark that it was worth a journey from America just to see Giotto's frescoes there the remark that had won a look of interest from Mr.

The picture of the Coronation of the Virgin beside this Tabernacle, once the altar-piece of the Baroncelli Chapel, a genuine work of Giotto's, as it is thought, is tender in feeling and magnificent in arrangement and composition.

In Giotto's Charity, luckily not restored, at Assisi, the guide-books have always mistaken the heart she holds for an apple: and my own belief is that originally, the Grammatice of Simon Memmi made with her right hand the sign which said, "Enter ye in at the Strait Gate," and with her left, the sign which said, "My son, give me thine Heart."

The impression handed down of Giotto's character is that of an independent, high-spirited man, full of invention, full of imagination, and also, by a precious combination, full of shrewdness and common sense; a man genial, given to repartee, and at the same time not deficient in the tact which deprives repartee of its sting.

But to-day, you may pass quickly on to the Uffizii, which will be just open; and when you enter the great gallery, turn to the right, and there, the first picture you come at will be No. 6, Giotto's "Agony in the garden." I used to think it so dull that I could not believe it was Giotto's.

This poor man, to warm himself, had made some trees be felled in the Garden of Honslardik, which belonged at that time to the House of Prussia; he thereupon received despatches from the King, intimating that a year of his salary was forfeited. Here truly is a witty sketch; consummately dashed off, as nobody but Voltaire could; "round as Giotto's O," done at one stroke.

S. He added a little Corollary to his proposition not long after. The Corollary was a girl. Abscissa Surd was as perfectly symmetrical as Giotto's circle, and as pure, withal, as the mathematics her father taught. It was just when spring was coming to extract the roots of frozen-up vegetation that I fell in love with the Corollary.

Leaving Venice Hervey's Lament Scenery en route Padua Associations of the past A brief history of Padua, and the House of Carrara General appearance of the town Giotto's Chapel His beautiful frescoes Character of Giotto's work The Cathedral Palazzo della Ragione The Wooden Horse St.

Sophia and the windows at Chartres, Mexican sculpture, a Persian bowl, Chinese carpets, Giotto's frescoes at Padua, and the masterpieces of Poussin, Piero della Francesca, and Cézanne? Only one answer seems possible significant form. In each, lines and colours combined in a particular way, certain forms and relations of forms, stir our aesthetic emotions.