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Palazzo Grifoni is a former aristocratic palace located in Piazza Grifoni San Miniato, in the Piazza Grifoni in the western side of the historic center of the town of San Miniato, province of Pisa, region of Tuscany, Italy. Piazza Grifoni lies along the same road that becomes Via Giosue Carducci to the south west and Via IV Novembre, after the ...
The church of San Miniato al Monte is dedicated to him. [3] According to legend, he was an Armenian king or prince serving in the Roman Army – or making a penitential pilgrimage to Rome [ 2 ] – who had decided to become a hermit near Florence.
San Miniato is a town and comune in the province of Pisa, in the region of Tuscany, Italy. San Miniato sits at an historically strategic location atop three small hills where it dominates the lower Arno valley, between the valleys of Egola and Elsa rivers.
The idea of a burial site near San Miniato was conceived around 1837, although the camposanto was inaugurated eleven years later, in 1848.. The project, originally entrusted to architect Niccolò Matas (the designer of the facade of the Basilica of Santa Croce), was enlarged and in 1864 Mariano Falcini used the area of the sixteenth-century fortress lying around the church.
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The Cemetery from the Basilica di San Miniato al Monte by Hans von Bartels. Adjacent to the church is the fine cloister , planned as early as 1426 and built from 1443 to mid-1450s. It was also designed by Bernardo and Antonio Rosselino, and financed by the Arte della Mercantia of Florence, [ 5 ] and the fortified bishop's palace, built in 1295 ...
The Palazzo dei Vescovi at San Miniato al Monte was a summer residence of the Bishops of Florence and was built, at his own expense, by Monsignor Andrea dei Mozzi, Bishop of Florence, recalled by Dante in canto XV of Inferno. [1]
It was painted for the altar in the Cardinal of Portugal's Chapel, a funerary chapel in the church of San Miniato al Monte in Florence, built for the prince and cardinal James of Portugal, who died in exile in Florence in 1459 at the age of 26. [2] The painting is now in the Uffizi in Florence, with a copy in place in the chapel. [3]