The Accademia delle Belle Arti is in the Via Ricasoli, that street which seen from the top of the Campanile is the straightest thing in Florence, running like a ruled line from the Duomo to the valley of the Mugnone.
It was Charles V who said of Giotto's Campanile that it ought to be kept in a glass case.
Those wishing to make either the campanile or Duomo ascents must remember to do it early.
From its balcony one sees the Etna far below and hears the roar of a weir, and away in the distance is Florence with the Duomo and a third of Giotto's Campanile visible above the intervening hills.
The tower rising from this square fortress has at once grace and strength and presents a complete contrast to Giotto's campanile; for Giotto's campanile is so light and delicate and reasonable and this tower of the Signoria so stern and noble.
The campanile as a structure had been finished in 1387, but not for many years did it receive its statues, of which something must be said, although it is impossible to get more than a vague idea of them, so high are they.
Giotto (at the beginning of this quickening movement) may at Assisi have been more inspired as a painter; but here is his campanileand here are his S.
Robertson, at the Presbyterian Church, make felicitous use of the fate of the old Campanile in a sermon on the text, "Other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
It is likewise filled with marbles, bronzes, and paintings; after examining which we ascended the campanile and had a splendid view of Venice and of all the islands.
Tall, massive buildings have been erected on another side of the square, and opposite them, sentinelled by statues, the Palazzo Vecchio rises grandly but grimly, with its conspicuous campanile towering over everything around.
The bell tower or Campanile (178 feet high) is one of those detached belfries not uncommon in Italy, and of which few specimens occur in England.
Near to it, on the south–east of the Piazza, its lofty campanile rises; while opposite the famous clock tower and clock form a portion of the north side.
The view from it, indeed, is somewhat better than that which we subsequently had from the campanile of San Marco, which looks rather directly down upon Venice.
A very high, slender–looking tower or campanile rises from it, and is one of the most prominent objects in Sienna.
After we had seen a good deal of Venice we ascended the campanile of St. Mark.
The campanile or bell tower which adjoins, but is separated from it, is of marvellous beauty, and stands nearly 300 feet high.
Bernardino, the elder, has now many undertakings on his hands, such as the building of the campanile of the Duomo, that of S.
On every side new churches and palaces rose into being, a lofty Campanile was added to the ancient Lombard Cathedral, an equestrian statue of Niccolo III.
Those are really the houses of Seville; those peasants yonder are Sevillians; that campanile which I see is the Giralda!
It lies just off the road to the right, under the wooded Henover Hill.
The other campanile which has excited the wonder and admiration of the world is the colossal pile known as the Metropolitan Building.
The Campanile is carried up in the same style and is also of marble.
Coming last of all to the greatest wonder of the Piazza, it is really with surprise you find the Campanile so beautiful, perhaps the most beautiful tower of Italy.
To-day Fiesole consists of a windy Piazza, in which a campanile towers between two hills covered with houses and churches and a host of narrow lanes.
This is well, for the whole church, founded in 1211, and not the Campanile only, is said to be by Niccolò Pisano.
They rang the great bells in the Campanile, and barricaded the gates with the benches and stalls in the Duomo, on the Baptistery they set their bowmen, and on the Campanile the slingers.
He had no habitation, but slept at nights under the portico of St. Mark or of the Rialto, or under the campanile of the church of St. Moses, and was often seen at early dawn before the church doors in prayer.
The campanile or bell-tower is 275 feet high, and decorated with rich tablets from the designs of Giotto.
The extraordinarycampanile or bell-tower, now called the leaning tower, was begun in 1174, and the foundation giving way accounts for its falling from the perpendicular.
They see her Campanile "Commercing with the skies," with no distracting human bustle about her feet; they see her Perseus battling beneath her Loggia, and her San Giorgio standing wakeful at his post on Or san Michele.
This little gold evening city, sunset clad in the colours of the New Jerusalem, lifting her heavenly campanile to as heavenly a sky, is to him a new and wonderful thing.
In the former case the same treatment as the Campanile at Florence is in some cases desirable, but all must depend upon the taste and judgement of the architect in such matters.
One of the most beautiful examples of the application of this knowledge to architecture is the Campanile of the Cathedral, at Florence, built by Giotto and Taddeo Gaddi, who were painters as well as architects.
When it was decided to build smaller towers, the bell tower or campanile (which is shown on p.
I pointed with my hand to the campanilein the distance, and this time he understood!
One sees at once that it is the campanile of the ecclesia major.
The campanile of this cathedral is pointed and very high; it can be seen from all parts of the city.
This campanile is of more recent times than the church: it dates from the early days of Vladislav II, about the end of the fifteenth century.
He also caused to be built of masonry the campanile of S.
Spirito in Florence, which was left unfinished, and is now being completed by order of Duke Cosimo after the original design of Baccio; and he likewise erected the campanile of S.
I wanted to tell you that the campanile at Pisa leans quite as much as the little Parian model on your desk, and about the famous Campo Santo with its interesting paintings, and many other things.
The octagonal sacristy is by Giuliano da San Gallo and Cronaca, finished in 1497, and the campanile by Baccio d'Agnolo at the beginning of the sixteenth century.
The present graceful campanile is of the fourteenth century.
The campanile is said to have been designed by another Dominican, Fra Jacopo Talenti, the probable architect of the so-called Spanish Chapel in the cloisters on the left of the church, of which more presently.
But all together, and all in their highest possible relative degrees, they exist, as far as I know, only in one building in the world, the Campanile of Giotto.
When the two from the campanile returned, and they went out to embark, a slight breeze had risen.
Above the high wall which surrounded the place loomed the campanile of an old church.
They reached the island and landed; Mrs. Marcy and Blake were already there, sitting on the sun-warmed steps of the church whose smooth white facade and red campanile are so conspicuous from Venice.
The most remarkable circumstance about the fall of the campanile is that no one was hurt.
The Campanile is worth climbing for its lovely prospect.
Mark's campanile take heart: some day Anno Domini will claim these others too, and then the rivalry will pass.
Elena, where the foundry was built in which were recast the campanile bells after the fall of 1902.
Mark's and the pigeons, the Campanile and coffee, few visitors have any time to inquire as to the other buildings of the Piazza.
The entrance to Burano is by a long winding canal, which at the Campo Santo, with its battered campanile and sentinel cypress at the corner, branches to left and right--left to Torcello and right to Burano.
There was no doubt as to the direction, with the campanile of the duomo as a beacon.
Then a decayed palace and the Calle del Campanile where the fondamenta ends.
Mark's, and the New Procuratie on the Campanile side.
Once there was a campanile too, but it fell into the Grand Canal some hundred and seventy years ago, causing a tidal wave which flung gondolas clean out of the water.
On the way to the campanile do not forget to notice the great stone shutters of the windows of the cathedral; which suggest a security impossible to be conveyed by iron.
Florence, too, was the home of the Renaissance, and although Giotto preceded the great master of early Renaissance, Brunelleschi, his famous Campanileis more classic in style than Gothic.
Like a queen, this graceful Campanile del Municipio stands, dominating her subjects the other towers, with all the tinkling bells they contain.
The four small apses lead up to the big one, behind which and beyond the roof line one sees the great Campanile rising over the north transept.
The Campanile stands to the east of the Cathedral.
PISA You will not find in all Italy anything that is placed quite so well with an eye to effective grouping as the Baptistery, Cathedral, and Campanile of Pisa.
The year 1174 saw the first stone of the Campanile laid.
We hear that he was deeply attached to a certain bell which hung in the campanile of the convent, and which bore the name of Viola and was noted for the peculiar sweetness of its voice.
In old times the campanile stood free of the church, and the front of the church had strange figures and frescoes on it, parts of which can still be seen by penetrating a dark passage under the bell-tower at the back of the little sacristy.
For although an inscription on the campanile of the abbey reads "Gugliel me fecit" yet it is clear from the style of the work that it was carried out under the control of Niccola.
In addition to the works already mentioned, he had with care and diligence completed the campanile of S.
They then greatly increased their church also from his plans, and incrusted both the church and the campanile with white and black marble on the outside, as may be seen.
In the year 1174 this Guglielmo, in conjunction with Bonanno, a sculptor, is said to have founded the campanile of the Duomo at Pisa, where the following words are carved: A.
Giovanni all the arches and tombs of marble and stone which were there and put a part of them behind the campanile in the façade of the Canonical Palace, beside the oratory of S.
Before he left Pistoia he made the model for the campanile of S.
While the campanilewas in progress, Giotto made a picture for the nuns of S.
After these things, in the year 1334, on the ninth day of July, he began work on the campanile of S.
It is recorded by many writers that Tommaso practised sculpture, and did a marble figure four braccia high for the campanile of S.
This campanile was so constructed that it would be impossible to join stones with more care, or to make a tower which should be finer in the matter of ornament, expense, and design.
Giovanni, with an angel on either side which were considered most beautiful, but also the small marble figures about the base of the door of the campanile of S.
Subsequently, in the time of the Doge Domenico Morosini, he founded the campanile of S.
For the cardinal Giovanni degli Orsini, papal legate in Tuscany, he built the campanile of that church, which woo some praise among the works of those times, but it did not receive its stone finishing until after the year 1303.
The facade of the Palazzo dei Conservatori dates from after the death of Michelangelo; the campanile is the work of Martino Lunghi, and dates from 1579.
He had the hill fortified all over again, and it is said that he saved the campanile by covering it with bales of wool and mattresses hung on cords.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "campanile" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
