Blashfield, Edwin Howland, 1848-1936, Blashfield, Evangeline Wilbour, d. 1918 · New York : Scribner's · leaf 180
kmen; sweeping away the archi-tect who planned, the masons who built, themagistrates who ordered, it left but the yellowedparchment in the Archivio which conferred uponMaestro Lorenzo Maitani the superintendence ofthe works. The fagade of the present church is amazing inits richness, undoubtedly… … SIENA possible to look at this restored whiteness with thesun upon it; the dazzled eyes close involuntarilyand one sees in retrospect the great, gray churchfront at Eheims, or the solemn fagade of NotreDame de Paris. It is like remembering an organburst of Handel after hearing the florid roulades…
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