Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-09-05

dral but have been taken over to this
museum which has various bits of
drawing, sculpture and the like that
have been connected with the Cathe-
dral.
That afternoon at three we took q
| drive first going to the Buonoroti
| House which is now Michael Angelo
Museum. 1t has some of his drawings
and plans and most of all two early
works of his in marble, a relief show
ing the centaurs fighting and small
Madonna and child In q yellowish mar
BILE. 1t is only about two feet tall and
| is so dainty in the way the Madonna's
head and drapery are worked out.
After looking about there awhile We
got in the carriages and went out to a
church San Soloi where there is a
frescoe OF the Last Supper by Andrea
del Sarto. II is beautifully colored
and the figures are graceful but there
isn't any great depth of feeling in it.
The last place we visited on our drive
was the Protestant Cemetery, small
out beautiful place, with many roses
| and trees. We saw Mrs. Brownings
grave, also Walter Savage Landor's
and Theodore Parker's. Almost every
stone was marked in English.
On Tuesday there were two thunder
showers which helped clear the sultry
air. One was in the morning while
we were in a church trying to see
Masaccio's frescoes, Christ and the
Tribute Money. It cleared enough for
US partly to see the picture and stopped
raining in time for US to get out of the
carriages at the Pitti Palace whore we
spent the morning. We had a lovely
time with the pictures. A copyist was
making large picture for a building
in Kansas City, the Library believe.
1t was that one of Rubens, The Spirit
of War.
That afternoon we drove up TO San
Miniato, hill opposite Fiesole. the
city of Florence and the Arno between.
We weren't expecting rain but were
about half way up when 1t began aud
simply poured for the other half of the
ascent. The drivers had large um-
brellas to go over the front of the car
riages and they put the tops up and
then spread an oil cloth over the
crack between so that we didn't get
much wet. We had only one or two
umbrellas in the whole crowd. 1t
stopped about the time we wanted to
get out and we stood on the wall In
front of the San Miniato church for q
long time watching the cloud and mist
and finally sun effects on the pano-
rama before US. 1t was simply beauti-
full. Mt. Morello that Brewing talks
about and Fiesole opposite and Flor
ence with her domes and towers and
red tile roofs freshly washed. think
the party as q whole liked that visit
! better than anything we did in Flor
ence. We went in the church of course,
aud then up flight of steps in the
modern cemetery up on to a rampant
which gave US view more extended,
for we could see past the church up
into Vallambrosa. The ride down past
the villas and drives was beautiful.
We stopped to look at Michael Angeles
square. where his Notifications are. /
don't know any city that I'd like to
spend six months in so well as Florence.
We drove through the Via Bardi, Ro-
mola's street and after supper Profess
sor read from Brewing to US, Andrea
del Sarto and Fra Lippo Lippi. The
next morning. Wednesday, we visited
the Riccardi Palace where Fra Lippo
was painting when he grew impatient
and escaped by the sheet rope. We
| went to see a little chapel which is
covered with bright gilt and red fres-
Goes by Gozzoli, very decorative. We
went also to Santa Maria Novella, q
church which has three or four dis
tinct stages of Florentine painting in
| it, Ginabue's Madonna which looks
stiff enough to US but which was such
a departure from the Byzantine rules
of painting that the Florentines when
thev were admitted info his studi0 and
saw it finished carried the picture and
artist as we'll through the street in
their enthusiasm and the name of the
street has been joyful from that day
to this. In another chapel we saw the
work of Orcagna, one of Giotto's pupils.
side wall painted with one huge pic
ture to represent Paradise, straight
rows of saints one behind the other.
no perspective at all, but many won
derfully sweet faces. Then in the
choir was some of Ghirlandoio's fine
drawing and good perspective. Then
the Spanish chapel which really 'ap-
pealed to me this trip in its wonder
/ fully decorative character. We had
time Wednesday to go into the Arch
geological Museum. The Egyptian
collection is very good. In it we saw
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