Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the canton Ticino (1913)
Butler, Samuel, 1835-1902, Streatfeild, R. A. (Richard Alexander), 1866-1919 · New York, E. P. Dutton & company · leaf 80
ollowingsketch is taken, I was struck with the wonderfully vividgreen which the whitewashed vault of the chancel andthe arch dividing the chancel from the body of the churchtook by way of reflection from the grass and trees outside.It is not easy at first to see how the green manages tofind its way… … MAIN DOORWAY,S. NICOLAO 74 Alps and Sanctuaries suffuse a whole interior as it does on a fine summers dayat Giornico. I do not remember to have seen this effect,in England. Looking up again against the mountain through theiopen door of the church when the sun was in a certainposition, I could see…
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