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R. Its twelve altars are attributed to Michael Angelo (were probably
designed by him), and the mosaics in the dome are by Cimabue. They
wandered about looking at the old pictures, seeking especially those by
Andrea del Sarto, who was the only artist familiar to them, whose
paintings are there. They touched and set swinging the bronze lamp which
hangs in the nave, and is said to have suggested to Galileo (who was
born in Pisa), his first idea of the pendulum. Then, going out, they
climbed the famous Leaning Tower, and visited the Baptistery, where is
Niccolo Pisano's wonderful sculptured marble pulpit. Afterward they went
into the Campo Santo, which fascinated them by its quaintness, so unlike
anything they had ever seen before. They thought of the dead reposing in
the holy earth brought from Mount Calvary; looked at the frescoes
painted so many hundreds of years ago by Benozzo Gozzoli, pupil of Fra
Angelico; at the queer interesting _Triumph of Death_ and _Last
Judgment_, so long attributed to Orcagna and now the subject of much
dispute among critics; and then, wearied with seeing so much, they went
into the middle of the enclosure an