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Sunday, March 9th, 2008 Posted in Siena | No Comments »
Few buildings reveal so much of a city's history and aspirations as Siena's Duomo . Complete to virtually its present size around 1215, it was ... Read more..Duomo, Baptistry And Museums
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 Posted in Pisa | No Comments »
Pisa's breathtaking Duomo (March-Oct Mon-Sat 10am-7.40pm, Sun 1-7.40pm; Nov-Feb Mon-Sat 10am-12.45pm, Sun 3-4.45pm; L3000/1.55) was begun in 1064 and completed around a century later. With ... Read more..About Pisa
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 Posted in Pisa | No Comments »
... Read more..Piazza Quattro Novembre And The Palazzo Dei Priori
Monday, February 18th, 2008 Posted in Perugia | No Comments »
At the far end of the Corso Vannucci is the big and austere Piazza IV Novembre (once a Roman ... Read more..Piazza Sarzano
Friday, February 8th, 2008 Posted in Genoa - Genova | No Comments »
A shrine stuck on the side wall of San Donato faces up Stradone San Agostino, laid out in the eighteenth century and now home to a quirky array of bars ... Read more..The Fourteenth and Early Fifteenth Centuries
Thursday, October 11th, 2007 Posted in Italy Painting and Sculpture | No Comments »
In spite of the momentous developments, the path towards the Renaissance was not to follow a continuous or consistent course. Indeed, the leading local school of painters in the fourteenth ... Read more..The Precursors of Renaissance
Thursday, October 11th, 2007 Posted in Italy Painting and Sculpture | No Comments »
The distinction between Gothic and Renaissance , so marked in the painting and sculpture of other countries, is very blurred in Italy. In the mid-thirteenth century, what is normally considered ... Read more..