Travel Diaries and Journals

Travel Diaries and Journals

Pages That Mention Cappella dei Depositi

Diary of a trip on the Nile River, 1874-1875.

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statue above + over all are the Medici arms. The room is lined with precious marbles + the arms of different Italian cities in Mosaic. The roof frescoes. Opposite the entrance a place is left for an altar. The floor is only of brick. Only one tomb that of Ferdinand I is entirely finished. By a narrow passage from this went into the Sagrestia Nuova or Cappella dei Depositi where are the monuments of Lorenzo + his son Giuliano by Michel Angelo [Michelangelo] in white marble, so well known through statuettes + engravings. Santa Maria Novella an empty looking church, fine old stained glass. In a transept saw Cimabue's Madonna which was [couler? color] -ered so wonderful when it was painted. Very fine frescoes in the choir by Ghirlandaio, many of the faces are portraits. A crucifix of wood by Brunelleschi much admired. In another transept are the fine frescoes of Paradiso + Inferno by Orcagna [Andrea di Cione and Nardo di Cione]. After lunch went with J. to the Duomo - very bare inside, but some fine old stained glass, in the Baptistery, saw two babies baptize [baptized] the priest after pouring the water over the childs head, [?] it with a towel, + when all was over the sacristan powdered the child[s] head + covered it up carefully in the [?] areas.

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