Plain-towns of Italy - the cities of old Venetia (1911) (14788517623)

Identifier: plaintownsofital01will (find matches) Title: Plain-towns of Italy : the cities of old Venetia Year: 1911 (1910s) Authors: Williams, Egerton R. (Egerton Ryerson), b. 1873 Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) DLC Subjects: Cities and towns Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co. Cambridge (Mass.) : Riverside Press Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ruck mewith a keen delight, — so free and majestic are thelines. Lofty, striped, pointed arches leap from onemighty column to another, and rise triumphally beforeand behind the choir, whose apse is luminous withseven taU lancet windows; the arched roof is of thewooden construction of the Eremetani of Padua, soar-ing buoyantly far above the gleaming marble floor.No chapel recesses break the sweeping lines of the con-fining walls; but little altars stand against them, onein each bay, under its two lofty windows.. Over the main doorway I saw another quaint earlyfresco, of the Annunciation; the great church is a gen-uine gallery of primitive artists, a class all by itself.But I went on to the later paintings around the apse.In the chapel to the right of the choir, over the altar,is the famous large canvas of Sebastiano del Piombo,representing the risen Christ surrounded by the twelveapostles, all standing, and St. Thomas putting hisfingers to the wound in the Saviours side; while under- Text Appearing After Image: TREVISO. A>>UIsCIATION. (TIZIAXO.) TREVISO 209 neatli appear the half-figures of six proud Trevisans,priests and women. It is a splendid work, of nobledignity and earnestness, exceedingly rich in tone andcoloring, — so grand, indeed, that many insist it tobe a production of Giovanni Bellini. Upon the