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Piazza dei Miracoli. The Piazza dei Miracoli (Italian: [ˈpjattsa dei miˈraːkoli]; 'Square of Miracles'), formally known as Piazza del Duomo ('Cathedral Square'), is a walled 8.87-hectare (21.9-acre) compound in central Pisa, Tuscany, Italy, recognized as an important center of European medieval art and one of the finest architectural complexes in the world. [1]
Monuments in the city include the Florence Cathedral, Basilica of Santa Croce, the Uffizi, and the Palazzo Pitti. Minor boundary modifications of the site took place in 2015 and 2021. Piazza della Signoria is pictured. [11] Venice and its Lagoon: Metropolitan City of Venice: 1987 394; i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi (cultural)
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Pistoia Cathedral, or Cathedral of Saint Zeno (Italian: Duomo di Pistoia or Cattedrale di San Zeno) is the main religious building of Pistoia, Tuscany, central Italy, located in the Piazza del Duomo in the centre of the city. It is the seat of the Bishop of Pistoia and is dedicated to Saint Zeno of Verona.
A piece of cast bearing his name was discovered at the foot of the tower in 1820, but this may be related to the bronze door in the façade of the cathedral that was destroyed in 1595. A 2001 study seems to indicate Diotisalvi was the original architect, due to the time of construction and affinity with other Diotisalvi works, notably the bell ...
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Ghiberti's sources of inspiration were varied, from classical art to the Tuscan Gothic of the first decades of the fourteenth century (Nicola and Giovanni Pisano, Arnolfo di Cambio), from goldsmithing to the miniature from beyond the Alps and Lombardy, and also the model provided by Andrea Pisano's other door. The result was particularly ...
Rosso Fiorentino. Deposition. 1521.Oil on wood. 375 × 196 cm (77 in). Pinacoteca Comunale di Volterra. Frescoes in the Church of San Francesco The Roman theatre. Volterra, known to the ancient Etruscans as Velathri or Vlathri [4] and to the Romans as Volaterrae, [5] is a town and comune in the Tuscany region of Italy.