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Siena Cathedral façade Gargoyles and Saints on façade. The façade of Siena Cathedral is one of the most fascinating in all of Italy and certainly one of the most impressive features in Siena. [6] Each of the cardinal points (west, east, north, and south) has its own distinct work; by far the most impressive of these is the west façade.
The Honolulu Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Louvre, the National Museum of Serbia, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Musée des beaux-arts de Chambéry, the Musée du Petit Palais, Avignon, the Museo Civico e Diocesano d'Arte Sacra of Montalcino, the church of San Francesco, Lucignano, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ...
Giovanni's next work was at Pisa Cathedral, sculpting the statues in the two rows of traceried gables at the exterior of the Baptistry (1277–1284). The vivacity of these statues is a new confirmation that he had left the serene style of his father behind. Between 1287 and 1296 he was appointed chief architect of Siena Cathedral. The ...
Much later sculpture of Nicola Pisano. According to the Siena Cathedral archives, Nicola Pisano was born to Petrus de Apulia between 1200 and 1205 in Apulia. [5] Nicola may have trained in the imperial workshops of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II who encouraged artists towards the "revival of classical forms" where "the representational traditions of classical art were given new life and ...
Carlo Saraceni, Caravaggisti whose religious art includes an altarpiece in the Roman church of San Lorenzo in Lucina [523] [524] Andrea del Sarto, work includes paintings for the Santissima Annunziata, Florence [525] [526] Sassetta, like much of the Sienese School, he did religious art, including the Mystic Marriage of St. Francis [527] [528]
The Piccolomini Altarpiece is an architectural and sculptural altarpiece in the left-nave of Siena Cathedral, commissioned by cardinal Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini who expected it to become his tomb. However, he was elected Pope Pius III and buried in the Vatican.
) Madonna on top of the Piccolomini altar in the Siena cathedral (1397–1400) Virgin and Child (Silvestri Madonna) (1403) - Marble, height 210 cm, Cathedral of Ferrara; St. Maurelius (c. 1403) - Cathedral of Ferrara. The tomb of Ilaria del Carretto (c. 1406) -Cathedral of Lucca; Fonte Gaia (1408–1419) - Siena
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Marble height 97 cm Venus and Cupid (in Italian) c. 1491–1492: Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, Florence Marble 43,5x58 cm Gallino Crucifix (in Italian) c. 1495–1497: Bargello Museum, Florence Wood 41,3×39,7 cm Young Saint John the Baptist [5] c. 1495–1497: Sacred Chapel of El Salvador, Úbeda: Marble