Tarawa (CVA 40) - Naval Cruise Book

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Q 95 ,Qty . 4:2 i f5:f,, y 4 ki' ii. J .'+W?f'W2 'QJQQGQQQJ ziemwmwif '1 rf. 1-wi 1541111-V' .24 9153.2--1 -4, 2764353 Pi'-Afi ' - is above This statue by Michelangelo depicts the Battle between the Centaurs and Lapiths. lt seems that the King of the Lapiths invited the Centaurs to the wed- ding of his daughter. After several casks of wine, the Centaurs decided to make away with the bride and any other maidens they could find. The incited Lapiths promptly gave battle, and after several hours of combat succeeded in sub- duing the would be captors. above San Croce Cathedral was built in TQ94, the facade being redone in 1857. The largest and most beautiful of the Franciscan churches, it has frescoes of St. Francis and St. John by Giotto and the tombs of Galileo and Michaelangelo FLGRENCE Vying with Rome for the honor of possessing the greatest art treasures of the Vvesternworld, Florence in her hayday was second to none. Under the tutelage of the controlling Medici family Cl3th-Toth centuriesj, she became the workshop of the artist-scientists Michelangelo and Leonardo daVinci, the painters Giotto and Donatello, the architect Brunelleschi, the mathema- tician Alberti, and the thinker Dante. These men by challenging the intellectual monopoly of medieval formalism were to a deciding degree responsible for the birth of the Renaissance. This expression of their :feeling is still very much evidenced in Florence today. A few examples of their greatness are shown on this page. 23