. a seneee: “5 - synipathefic, ~- floating figures, and from the 2 pand ee of the batte s- | . Siena The, The plate employment Ne striped 5 represents effect of. the SES> interior. ‘efi the! cathedral of %% r interior eis: of alternate. white ay “~ PAP SI . | en | reds .grimy old hospital of degli Innocenti ~ the first real. Renais sance- structure <= 4 lovely, band, of Andrea della Robbia's swaddled* infants gaze. out, extending ey hands in mute supplicatton to. the hardshearted. : Luca della Rdbbia ndaeea well in both bronze and marble befo-pé hé began his work in clay, as his exquisite singing and dancing boys, pa. nels ones, on the choir sereen, and now in the cathedral Mu Scum ; attest er PPE ES AS Pe dar ists cee and black blocks building of. the supporting: columns. As in the-eases of Rome dnd *Perucia, Lhegr very cathedral, unfinished and their most characteristics stopped building at “it when venescent entusiasm. it is a building of -nehesque. nor and pisan a obtained was sn ‘throu; gh. thes of marble. “in, the up Siena, is‘an aint center.’ bigzarre s - Ts‘ one of rake records, incompdete’as tie: men wlio *A*% adverse cirounstancps damped their. ju- contradictions and “Sndeceg excesses; Hotties: sothitey. ‘pitts of “both schools,’ tinétared with pécultarittes; a-tremendous pile of black rom Lombard ..* and white hare bles, mostly wrong in its fundamentals, and yet, in some intangi-* ble way despite all its shortcomings, it makes as distinct anctim-* pression as a roman trimphal arch, for it is incongrous with genk* nius, not with, SUOpLALe Ie MN The plate N* 6 represents the Villa Palmieri at Florence, Here Boccaccio and his companions took refuge when the black* plague swept europe in 1348 and destroyed more lives than the pre~ sent européan wer has‘ taken. For five months,,with suffering and ecak: all about then, 2A they strove‘to lighten the chorror of the days with their music ** | J’ and dancing “their feasting those that took. permanent and story-telling shape in the - the stories baBoue Decamerane. . ee ic | gs Ss micron -\ aia ‘h <! m2 <> ee beings’