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Title: In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Kellogg, Vernon Lyman, 1867-1937
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Publisher: New York: Holt
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Simone Memmi. Cold and bare, outside and inside, is San Lorenzo,the great Medici-built church. Here lie the Medicitombs in which Michelangelo reached the height ofhis genius in sculpture. Indeed it were as well to callit a Michelangelo as a Medici church; for asarchitect and sculptor, the great artist gave an im-portant part of his life to this historic structure.And here was held the magnificent funeral over hisbody when he returned to Florence, dead, after thirtyyears of voluntary exile in Rome. Other great names of art are associated with thebuilding and embellishing of San Lorenzo. Brunel-leschi was the first architect, dying after seeing onlythe Old Sacristy completed. It is this part of thechurch which, next to the New Sacristy where theMichelangelo sculptures are, is the richest in itslegacy of Renaissance art. For in it is a veritablemuseum of Donatello reliefs, busts, and statuettes,besides a pavement sarcophagus constructed byCosimo the Elder to the memory of his parents. An
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Photo. Alinar Altar in the Chapel of the Sacrament Desiderio da Settignano: San Lorenzo The Larger Churches 109 hour or two spent in this room with the old sacristanas cicerone will give one an abiding memory of Flor-ences first great sculptor. Out in the bare, cold nave under the tawdry giltceiling are two stairless pulpits with rich reliefs inbronze by Donatello and his pupils; while in the leftaisle is a beautiful singing gallery, and in the Mar-telli chapel (second in the left transept) a cradletomb by the same master. In this chapel, too, is anunlovely crucifix by-Cellini and a beautiful Annuncia-tion by Filippo Lippi. On the altar at the end of the right transept is anexquisite marble shrine by Desiderio da Settignano,almost concealed by the altar fittings; but by scram-bling up behind the altar and squeezing in betweenits back and the shrine one can see something of thisdelicate and wholly charming piece of decorativesculpture. In August, 1530, the citizens of Florence gave upt

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