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Title: Italy : handbook for travellers
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipsic : K. Baedeker
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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s receives the Law on Mt. Sinai, Adorationof the calf; 5. S. Botticelli, Destruction of the company of Korah,and that of the sons of Aaron; 6. Luca Signorelli, Moses as a law-giver, Investiture of Aaron, Mourning over the body of Moses, withboldly drawn male figures. — Adjoining the latter, on the en-trance-wall: Salviati, Contest of the Archangel Michael for thebody of Moses, now entirely repainted. — Right: 1. Perugino,Baptism of Christ; 2. S. Botticelli, Christs Temptation; vigorousand finely individualised; *3. Dom. Ohirlandajo, Vocation of Peterand Andrew, completed about 1484, in a dignified and severe mon-umental style ; 4. C. Rosselli, Sermon on the Mount, Cure of theleper; *5. Perugino (who, according to Vasari, was assisted by Bar-id* 292 V. Right Bank. ROME. The Vatican. tol. della Gatta), Christ giving the keys to Peter, one of the mastersilnest monumental works, in spite of detects in the composition;6. C. Rosselli, Last Supper. — On the entrance-wall: ResurrectioTi
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Uc VnUcan. ROME. V. Right Bank. 293 of Christ, originally ty D. Ghirlandajo, renewed by Arrigo Fiam-mingo. — On the pillars between the windows 28 popes by S. Botti-celli., not easily distinguishable. The **Ceiling fp. liii) was begun by Michael Angelo on 10thMay, 1508, and, as proved by existing documents, completed in theautumn of 1512 (although the masters biographers have stated thathe executed the work in 22 months). Whether the ceiling of theSistine Chapel, or the Stanze of Raphael are to be regarded as theculminating effort of modern art, has long been a subject of con-troversy. The merit of uniformity of thought and compactness ofcomposition, must be awarded to the ceiling painting, and theseattributes are the more worthy of admiration, as the subjects ofthe whole series had not been agreed upon from the outset. Thepictorial enrichment of the ceiling was at lirst to be limited to thefigures of the Twelve Apostles, but Michael Angelo, perceiving thepoverty of the design, prev

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