Identifier: gri_spanishameri00chil (find matches)
Title: The Spanish-American republics
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Child, Theodore, 1846-1892
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Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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and some, like those of La Merced and of the Naza-renas, have most elaborate facades, adorned with ornate twisted col-umns, niches, statues, and entablatures, all in stucco-work. Thechurch of Santo Domingo has a very lofty tower, likewise of timber,lath, and plaster, painted white to imitate marble, and enriched withtier after tier of lapis lazuli pillars, composed of stucco painted blueand veined with yellow. This tower, like the Giralda of Seville, issurmounted by a metal figure. These churches are all rather gaudilydecorated inside with a profusion of side altars, images dressed in richstuffs, flowers, candles, and drapery, just as in Spain. Indeed, as youwalk about Lima you are constantly making the remark how like it isto Seville or Toledo, only it is not so good. The splendor of thechurches of Lima now exists only in memory, for during the war withChili all the church plate was sent to the melting-pot, and most of thegold and silver ornaments in private hands also. The demagogue
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THE CATHEDRAL, LIMA. IMPRESSIONS OF PERU. IQI Nicolas Pierola distinguished himself in collecting ecclesiastical richesat that time. On the whole, the finest church in Lima is that of San Francisco,which, together with the convent and the adjacent chapels of Soledadand Milagro, forms an immense pile near the Rimac. Here, again,the architectural proportions and general silhouette of the buildingsare very imposing, and if you judged from a distance or from a photo-graph, you might easily imagine the structure to be of rich white-and-black marble. But no. It is the eternal stucco, plaster, and paintover a basis of brick, the arches and framework of the upper belfriesand turrets being timber and cane with stucco mouldings. Manybuildings in Lima bear the marks of the passage of the victoriousChilians or of civil revolutionary strife. The facade of the cathedralis pitted with bullet-holes, but the towers of San Francisco have suf-fered worst of all, probably beyond repair. It appears that i

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