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Cathedral cities of Italy (1911)

Collins, W. W., 1862- · London : W. Heinemann ; New York : Dodd, Mead · leaf 178

An illustration from Cathedral cities of Italy, 1911, leaf 178
all closed window that looks intothe Sanctuario. So delicately cut are thesebeautiful figures that the art which produced themseems almost plastic. The Sanctuario is closedand contains a fresco of Sigismondo Malatestakneeling before his patron saint. The next chapelappears in the illustration. It… … RIMINI of Sigismondos two wives she was his mistress,but at the death of the second he married her andthe record of their wedded life is a happy one.Her tomb is borne by elephants on brackets and issurmounted by a knights helm with the Malatestacrest above. The first chapel on the north side of the…

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