The Baptistry and the Romanesque churches of Florence; sixtyfourillustrations, and text

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E.ditoreE.BONOA^Aii-ANo-,M - TEXTTBXT DEUTSCHERENaUSH1^9I.C lt>266lS0iOO npSuy soq AHVHan VINHOinVD jo AXISVSAIimL'lTALIA MONVMENTALE COLLEZIONE DI MONOGRAFIE "Sotto il Patronato della Dante Alighieri ,, e del Touring Club JtalianoL*ITALIA MONVMENTALE DI MONOGRAFIECOLLEZIONE "SOTTO IL PATRONATO DELLA DANTE ALIGHIERI K DEL TOVRING CLVB ITALIANO I churches of Florence SIXTYFOUR ILLUSTRATIOx^IS AND TEXT BY U. MONNERET DE ViLLARD und EDITION MILANO -K BONOMI Editore Galkria Vitt. Eman. 84-86 I914ALL RIGHTS RESERVEDThe Baptistry and The Romanesque churches of Florence FlorenceThere are few remaining monuments in St. being per-of Romanesque architecture, John's Apostles,haps the only integral one. The Holy Saviour and St. Stephen's-St. James-over-Arno, St. Outat-the Bridge are renewed and in part spoiled. of St. Miniato, the Abbeyof the city are the basilica of Fiesole and St. Andrew's in Empoli. around the year looo haveMany edifices erected was proppedbeen destroyed: St. Andrew's which arch and the walls of a Ro-up on one side by an as propeman building, and was therefore known arciim. the yearA document of the Emperor Lothair of 852 its donation to the church of St. John'sindicates an elegantto serve as a women's convent. It had stone, having double-arched win-belfry in trimmed century; St. Mi-dows with marble columns ofthe loth in and reconstructed inchael's, demolished 1239 1379; and againSt. Pancra's, restored in the 15th century Cecilia's which was burned in 1304;in 1752; St. ofSt. Mary Major's, whose oldest document is 929-964, ofas we learn from a compromisehad a portico, archives of theMarch 31st, 1222, in the ChapterVIII Cathedral, and was restored in the second half ol again inthe 13th century and 1521 by the Carme- lites; St. Peter Major's, so called in an act of 1031, its andenlarged and restored in front in 1066 again in the 14th century, and demolished in St. Pe-1784; < in a diploma of olter's Coelorum >, named 966 the Emperor Otto III and dependent on a curch of in Bishop-the same name in Pavia, supressed 1448 ; St. Martin's, founded in 986 by John, Archdeacon of Fieaole, to which parish belonged the ancestors of Alighieri; St. Leo's, existing in having a facade1013, adorned with two marble lions, and which was also called St. Leo's of the Brunelleschi's from this fa- ismily which patronized it, and of which a door preserved in the Museum of Old P'lorence annexed to that of St. Mark's ; St. Mary's-above-the-Gate, of re-erected after the fire of and suppres-1038, 1304 sed in 1785; St. Romolo's, built towards 1030, re- built in and demolished in St. Peter's,1349 1769; Scheraggio, of 1066, only slightly smaller than St. Reparata, was destroyed in the j8th century and its pulpit carried to St. Leonards in Arcetri; Holy Tri- which has been transformed; St. Bar-nity, completely tholomew's, mentioned for the first time in an act double-co-of June 25th, 1132, had an elegant little lumned porch, as is shown in the design of Mark Bartholomew Rustichi his preserved in thein codex archives of Archobishop's house. It was suppressed hadin 1768; St. Mary's < in Campidoglio >, which the Alfieri as patrons; St. Thomas's, .St. Simon and St. Jude's, St. Peter Buonconsiglio's, St. Mary-in- the-fields, St. Christopher's, St. Procolo's, to name few, are Othersonly a entirely lost to the story of art. which still exist have been so changed as to render the original architecture unrecognizable. Fortunately, however the monuments which still remain to us, cited ofabove, are certainly among the largest and finest those which sprang up at the period in question, and well adapted to give us a complete and trustworthy