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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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is constructed, like that of the Siena cathedral, of al-ternate layers of dark and light stone (black basalt and greyish-yellowlimestone from the vicinity). On each side four columns and two pillarsseparate the nave, which is 131 ft. in height, from the lower aisles.Above the round-arched arcades is a gallery adorned with rich carving.The windows are pointed, and the upper parts filled with stained glass.■The visible frame-work of the roof was formerly richly ornamented. At the sides of the principal entrance, to the right, St. Sebastian byScalza, to the left, St. Rocco. In the Left Aisle , Madonna and St. Ca-tharine, a fresco by Gentile da Fahriano. Before this stands a marble *font,the lower part by Luca di Giovanni (1390), the upper by Sano di Matteo(1407). — In the Nave, to the Iigbt, a fine marble holy water basin inthe Renaissance style; in front of the columns, the statuesof the TwelveApostles, by Mosca, Scalza, Toii, Giovanni da Bologna, and other masters. By _ .^^Staajone
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the higli-altar the Annunziata and Archangel, by Mocchi, one on each side.— In the Choiu, frescoes from the life of the Virgin by Ugolino dllarioand Pielro di Puccio. The beautifully inlaid stalls in the choir are byartists of Siena, of the 14th and 15th cent.; on each side is an altar withreliefs in marble: on the left. Visitation of Mary, executed by Moschino when15 years of age, from designs by Sammicheli of Verona; to the right. Ador-ation of the Magi, by Mosca. Right Transept: the **Chapel of the Madonna di S. Beizio (Cap-pella Nuova), with a miraculous image of the Virgin and a Pieta, by Ip-polito Scalza. This chapel occupies an important page in the annalsof Italian art. The superintendent of the cathedral-mosaics having heardthat the famous painter and monk Fra Angelica da Fiesole was not en-gaged during the summer in Rome (p. 303), invited him to Orvieto, andsecured his services for the decoration of the chapel. In 1447 Fra Ange-lico accordingly worked here, but for three m

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