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Title: Pacific shores from Panama
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Peixotto, Ernest Clifford, 1869-1940
Subjects: Pacific Coast (South America) -- Description and travel Latin America -- Description and travel Peru -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ly palms, and ornatelamp-posts supporting arches of lights for festivals.It is surrounded on two sides by portales, or arcades,lined with shops. The third side is occupied by thepalace and the fourth by the cathedral. This last is not as interesting as some of the othergreat Peruvian churches. It was apparently madeover in the last century, when a wave of classic re-vival swept away many of the picturesque plater-esque constructions of the Latin-American churchesand substituted cold Roman columns and arches forthe elaborate pediments and richly carved surfacesof the Churrigueresque artists. So now the cathedrallacks much of that interest that one expects to findin a building of its age. The interior, too, suffers atfirst sight from the same cause, yet upon closer in-vestigation the choir and chapels yield notable worksof art. There are, for example, the massive silver highaltar and the rarely beautiful silleria, rows of richlycarved stalls ornamented with good statues of saints (62) .
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Lima Cathedral from the Bodegones LIMA, CITY OF THE KINGS and apostles enshrined in ornate canopies or framedin elaborate panelling—all done in cedar wood afterthe best Hispanic traditions. The Chapel of thePurissima, too, is a fine piece of plateresque not yetdebased by the barocco, and we discovered in thesacristy a delightful Httle Moorish fountain of ala-baster, the glint of whose tiles in the penumbra andthe splash of whose water in the silence recalled tous some inner court of the Alhambra. In the Chapel of the Virgen Antigua, under thebenign eyes of a placid Virgin and Child sent overfrom Spain by Charles V, a modest white casket withopen glass sides contains the remains of that won-derful ruffian, that intrepid conquistador, FranciscoPizarro. As I looked at his dried bones and mummi-fied flesh exposed thus publicly to the gaze of thecurious, lying upon, but in no way shrouded by, abed of purple velvet, his entrails in a bottle at hisfeet, I wondered if it was with design tha

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