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The Crescentii (in modern Italian Crescenzi) were a baronial family, attested in Rome from the beginning of the 10th century and which in fact ruled the city and the election of the popes until the beginning of the 11th century.
The Gaeta Diocesan Museum, formally known as the Museo Diocesano e della Religiosità del Parco dei Monti Aurunci, displays a collection of religious objects and artworks, and is housed in the Palazzo De Vio, adjacent to the cathedral of Gaeta, region of Lazio, Italy.
The Duchy of Gaeta (Latin: Ducatus Caietae) was an early medieval state centered on the coastal South Italian city of Gaeta. It began in the early ninth century as the local community began to grow autonomous as Byzantine power lagged in the Mediterranean and the peninsula due to Lombard and Saracen incursions.
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The church, in particular, which had already been damaged by an earthquake in 1764 that caused the bell tower to collapse, [20] was in a state of decay; this was noticed even by Pope Pius IX, in voluntary exile in Gaeta from November 1848 to September of the following year, who called for a restoration of the ancient structure.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City Parke-Bernet, New York [171] [174] $5-$6 million Ginevra de' Benci: Leonardo da Vinci: c. 1474–1478: February 1967: Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Private sale [171] $5.5 million (£2.3 million) Portrait of Juan de Pareja: Diego Velázquez: c. 1650 ...
It's not every day that someone can turn $100 into six figures. But on Monday night's episode of "Antiques Roadshow," one lucky woman did just that. "Gallery price would be $500,000," said ...
The church of Santa Lucia housed, before its deconsecration, one of the most important works of the painter Giovanni da Gaeta: the triptych with the Coronation of the Virgin among Saints, [100] originally located above the high altar, which is fundamental for the reconstruction from an art-historical point of view of the personality of its ...