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The Legend of the Holy Face, Die Bildnus zu Luca, and the fiddler.Sixteenth-century woodcut by Hans Burgkmair. In the traditional account, the year 782 marks the arrival of the Holy Face in the Basilica di San Frediano; its transferral to the cathedral, justified by a miraculous translation in the Latin legend, De inventione, revelatione ac translatione Sanctissimi Vultus (or Leggenda di ...
Diagram of the primitive façade Graphic reconstruction of the primitive façade "ad triangulum".. The building is entirely covered with perfectly polished limestone slabs and arranged in alternately high and low bands, according to an order evoking the monuments of Antiquity, this alternation has no purely decorative but compositional value: in the oldest parts of the façade, the lower bands ...
The body of a pilgrim saint, San Divino Armeno, is preserved under the high altar in the church. Born in Armenia around 1000, he embarked on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and Rome, eventually reaching Lucca in 1050 along the Via Francigena. He died in the city during a stop of the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. He died on June 3, 1050, and ...
Below the altar is a Roman sarcophagus with the body of St Richard the Pilgrim, an English “king” (of Wessex), who died in Lucca in 722 while on pilgrimage to Rome. He was the father of Saints Willibald, Winibald and Walpurga. On the marble floor lies a tombstone of Lorenzo Trenta and his wife, equally from the hand of Jacopo della Quercia.
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Avicii was found dead in the afternoon hours of April 20, 2018, according to a statement from his rep. His tragic death came two years after he announced his retirement from touring in March 2016.
Antica Porta San Donato (1590), inside Piazza San Donato is the seat of the tourist information office of Lucca; Porta San Gervasio (1198), along via del Fosso at the intersection with via Elisa, dates back to the Middle Ages; Porta dei Borghi (1198) at one end of via Fillungo in the direction of Piazza Santa Maria
The death of her mother when she was just 5 years old hit Madonna hard.. In archival clips and audio featured in the new Sky documentary Becoming Madonna, the Queen of Pop, 66, opens up about how ...