Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-09-29

hnest carved roof In the world. 1t is
in the form Of Greek cross and the
ceiling is most delicately carved in
some rich, dark wood. Then we went
to the Duomo where Savonarola preach
ed. 1t is very large building with a
huge dome. Both it and Giotto's tow
er, which stands near by, are made OF
different colored marbles. / didn't
like the effect of different colored mar
bles in the interior of the cathedral at
Pisa, but in these two buildings it eff
fects me more fayorably. Nothing
could be more beautiful than the cam
panile or belfry, Gioto's tower. The
interior of the Duomo is rather bare
for the fantastic exterior. We saw
there two very interesting works of
art. One was an unfinished work by
Michael Angelo-Rieta, two sorrowing
forms supporting the lifeless body of
Christ. 1t IS placed back of the alter
where the light is not very strong SO
that one will not notice that it is in
completed, 1 suppose. The other was
an angel head by Donatello. 1t is a
small bas relief over a marble tablet
in the vestry, and is the sweetest, most
delicate angel head lever saw. Queen
Victoria offered several thousand dol
lars for it at one time but could not
get it. The baptistry is just in front
of the cathedral. We saw Ghiberti's s
doors that took him fifty years to make.
They are dusty with the dust of many
years but the figures are full of grace
and beauty.
Wednesday afternoon we first went
to the national museum. There we
saw Donatello's David, and casts OF
many of his works, that wonderful
bronze Mercury by John of Bologna,
several of Michael Angeles works
drunken Bacchus, dying Adonis, bust
of Brutus (unfnished), a Madonna and
child, also unfinished-and the much
talked of works of della Robbia. He
made statuary, mostly reliefs, in a
kind of porcelain. The glaze gives a
a disagreable look to the figures, and
we are all glad that his art died with
him. There are several examples of
his work in marble, which show such
beauty that we have come to the con-
clusion that he would have been a
great sculptor if he had left that porce-
lain alone. One kind of his work is
very pleasing though. On hospital
there are medallions of this porcelain
that are truly beautiful. The back
ground is blue, and the reliefs are fig
ures of babies in swaddling clothes.
After the national museum we went
to San Lorenzo where Michael Angeles
famous tombs of the Medici are. There
are four figures that represent Day.
Night, Morning and Evening. Two
are on each tomb and above is statue
of the man-one, Lorenzo, and the 9th
er, Julian de Medici. Only one of the
four figures is entirely completed. The
story is told that man wrote on Night
this verse:
"Carved by angel in this marble white;
Sweetly reposing, 10, the Goddess Night
Calmly she sleeps, and must living be,
Awake her gently; she will speak to thee"
Michael Angelo saw these lines and
put under them the following:
Grateful is sleep whilst wrong and shame survive,
More grateful still in senseess stone to live;
Gladly both sight and hearing forego;
Oh then awake me not. Hush--whisper low"
After visiting San Lorenzo with its
Did frescoes, we drove to the top of San
a hill across the ArnO. On
he top of this hill is church with a
arge Protestant cemetery. A little
arther down is park with bronze
copy of Michael Angeles David. From
here we had magnificent view of the
1alley of the Arno surrounded by hills.
Thursday we visited the Uffige and
Pitt galleries.
Friday morning at the Academy of
inc arts we saw the original of
Michael Angeles david. There were
several OF Andrea del Sator's paintings,
"Adoration of the Magi,"
FRA Bartholomew ..Savonarola," Fra
Angelico's descent from the cross
md several by Fra Lippo Lippi. In
he afternoon we went to the Pitt and |
Jffizi again, and at four o'clock we
ook carriage and drove to Fiesole,
hree miles from Florence on a hill |
opposite San Miniato. We leave here |
It six tomorrow morning, stay at Bo- |
ogna from ten to five, and reach Ven |
ce at eleven at night. We have had |
hree and one half delightful days here.
bur latest news from home was the |
'leveland Leader of July 26th where |
t told of the thermometer being 10
egrees in St. Louis. How you must
ave suffered. Give my love to all my
forget it. We expect to
all four weeks from yesterday, Sep
ember 10th, from Bologne, France, on
ne Spaarndam, of the Netherland
american Line. I'm not ready to leave