Chicago to Naples: Our Twelve Months' Tour Through the British Isles, France ...
Chicago to Naples: Our Twelve Months' Tour Through the British Isles, France ...
Clark, Robert a
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The ceilings are flat and divided into small panels with gilt carvings. All the altars and chapels, of which there are many, are profusely deco- rated with sculptures, paintings, frescos, mosaics and carvings, all of which, and the rich furniture, testify to the wealth, taste and talent of the builders who designed this handsome church. Where the nave terminates at the dome hangs the bronze chandelier, which suggested to Galileo the idea of the pendulum when he was eighteen years of age. This e...minent man was among the first sci- entific discoverers of the later centuries, and was much persecuted PISA — THE LEANING TOWER. 125 l>y the bigoted churchmen of his day. His teachings eventually became recognized as facts, and laid the foundation for much of our popular knowledge. The baptistery was erected in the twelfth century, and is an octagon, 150 feet in diameter, and 160 feet high. It is unique in conception, of fine proportion, and built of white marble. A bronze statue of the Baptist surmounts the dome roof.
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