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Title: In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Kellogg, Vernon Lyman, 1867-1937
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Publisher: New York: Holt
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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etails closelyapproaching that other Last Supper of the same artistIn the cloisters of Ognissantl. The life-like cat gaz-ing out at the spectator from near the feet of Judasis a new feature and there are, of course, slightchanges throughout the picture, but the arrangementof the figures and the sub-tropical garden of thebackground, with its trees, fruits, and flying birds. Isnearly the same In both frescoes. There Is a fresh,open-air decorative feeling about the whole, whicheven the half light of the little room cannot destroy. The second, or Old Cloisters, are filled now withan Interesting collection of architectural bits of OldFlorence. There are stone stemmi and escutcheonsfrom the old palaces of the great families, bits ofportals, cornices, and architraves; capitols, pedestals,and parts of pillars and pilasters, and in some of theadjoining cells fragments of mural decorations Incolored pattern. Of special Interest to any one wholikes to read his way as he walks the streets with an
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Stray Pictures on Monastery Walls 179 eye eagerly open to the palaces, towers, and portalsof the city of the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenthcenturies, are the stemmi and escutcheons that re-veal the former, if not the present, family ownershipof these remainders of great days. In this San Marcocollection one can make acquaintance with the stemmiof the Medici, the StrozzI, Sassetti, Ughi, Pilli, Cor-sini, Vecchietti, Anselmi, Brunelleschi, Tosinghi, anda score beside. And with those, too, of the greatguilds; the Mercatanti with their eagle, the Regat-tieri with their lion and book, the Lana with theirlamb and its halo and staff with attached pennant,the Medici and Speciali, the Giudici and Notari, theOliandoli, the Cambii, and the rest. Students ofdesign will find a fascination in the little rooms (IIIto VI) lined with the brilliantly colored pieces ofmural decoration taken from old palaces and housesof wealthy merchants. In room III there is an inter-esting series of photographs

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