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A stained glass tour in Italy (1913)

Sherrill, Charles Hitchock, 1867- · London, John Lane; New York, The John Lane Company; [etc., etc.] · leaf 95

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ave somethingthat more resembles the close-at-hand beauty seenin the Sainte Chapelle. So dimly lighted is thiscrypt-like lower church at Assisi that it is onlywhen the sun gets low in the west that its slantingrays enable one to make out the beautiful allegoricalfrescoes painted by Giotto on the… … THE UPPER CHURCH, ASSISI_ About the walls, high above the rows of fresco scenes, is the best series of mosaicperiod windows in Italy. Furthermore, this is one of the rare instances of a satis-factory combination of stained glass windows and frescoed walls. Assisi the Sacristy. Here, above the…

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