The Story of Verona

CHAPTER XIV

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_Plan for seeing the Town--Hotels_.....299

ILLUSTRATIONS

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_Centrepiece by Andrea Mantegna behind the High Altar at San Zeno_ (_Photogravure_) _Frontispiece_

_Castel S. Pietro from the Adige_.....5

_A Vendor of Fresh Water_.....20

_The Arena_.....22

_The façade of the Duomo_.....45

_Tower of the former Convent of S. Zeno._ (_The only remaining fragment of the building where the mediæval German emperors stopt on their way to Rome_).....50

_Church of S. Zeno. Capital in the Nave_.....54

_The Tribuna--Ancient Seat of Judgment, Piazza delle Erbe_.....63

_Old Seal of Verona_.....65

_The Costa. Palazzo of Cangrande in the distance where he entertained Dante_.....75

_The back of Casa Mozzanti. Once inhabited by Alberto della Scala_.....85

_Tomb of Mastino II. della Scala_.....91

_Ponte Scaligeri. Bridge of Castel Vecchio_.....95

_Fountain in the Piazza delle Erbe._ (_Statue said originally to be of the third century_).....99

_Shield of the Scaligers, with the “Holy Bird,” the badge of their dignity as Vicars Imperial_.....102

_The Piazza delle Erbe, with the Venetian Column_.....111

_Palazzo del Consiglio. Architect Fra Giocondo_.....125

_Madonna and Child, V. Pisanello, Museo Civico_.....137

_Madonna, SS. Zeno and Lorenzo Giustiniani, Girolamo dai Libri, Church of St George in Braida_.....141

_The Arms of Verona_.....149

_South Door of the Duomo_.....151

_Side Door of Duomo. Detail of Column_.....155

_Detail of Side Door of Duomo_.....158

_Church of St Anastasia from the Adige showing the Houses which stood there before the “muraglioni,” built to defend the town against the Inundations of the Adige, were erected_.....161

_Holy Water Basin in St Anastasia_ (_Figure carved by Gabriel Cagliari, father of Paul Veronese_).....164

_Madonna and Saints, St Anastasia_ (_ascribed alternately to Francesco Morone and Girolamo dai Libri_).....167

_Tomb of Guglielmo da Castelbarco_.....170

_Piazza delle Erbe_.....173

_Piazza dei Signori_.....179

_Outside Staircase, Palazzo Publico or della Regione_.....182

_The Outside Staircase, Palazzo della Ragione_.....183

_Fifteenth Century Well in Via Mazzanti_.....186

_Effigy of Cangrande_.....189

_Monument of Giovanni della Scala, Verona_.....192

_Tomb of Cansignorio della Scala_.....193

_Juliet’s House_ (_traditionally_).....201

_Church of S. Fermo Maggiore: The Madonna and Child and St Anne in Glory, with other Saints below_ (_G. Francesco Caroto_).....205

_Cavazzola’s Deposition from the Cross_.....211

_Museo Civico, The Madonna and Child enthroned, with St Joseph and the Archangel Raphael_ (_Girolamo dai Libri_).....216

_Virgin and Child with Saints in Glory_ (_Paolo Morando detto Cavazzola_).....217

_Window and Balcony in Via Seminario_.....225

_Giardino Giusti_.....227

_The Giusti Garden_.....231

_Doorway of Carved Wood in the Sacristy of S. Maria_.....235

_Choir Stall of Intarsio Work in S. Maria_.....239

_Church of S. Giorgio in Braida, Martyrdom of St George_ (_Paolo Veronese_).....243

_The Madonna with Holy Women_ (_Moretto du Brescia_).....247

_Balcony in Via St Eufemia_.....251

_Corso Cavour_.....253

_Fresco by Domenico Morone in the Library of S. Bernardino_.....260

_S. Zeno Maggiore. Choir Screen and Entrance to the Crypt_.....269

_Church of S. Zeno_.....273

_Cloisters, S. Zeno Maggiore_.....277

_Ruins of the Villa of Catullo_.....283

_Castle of Sirmione_.....289

PLANS

_Map of the Town of Verona, from an Engraving in the Biblioteca Comunale of the year 1671_ _face page_.....103

_Plan of the Town of Verona showing the old walls, from an engraving in the Biblioteca Comunale of the year 1535_.....303

_Map of the Town_....._at end_

All the half-tone illustrations are reproductions from photographs by Alinari, Florence.

The Story of Verona