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    Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented...
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    Luca della Robbia's cantoria, now Florence Cathedral Museum Detail of Luca della Robbia's cantoria Detail of the Donatello cantoria Desiderio da Settignano...
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    Putti candle-holders (category Bronze sculptures in France)
    sculptures by Donatello, now in the Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris. The two works were two child angels described by Vasari as being on the cantoria...
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    Canonici (south side) and the Door of the Mandorla (north side) with sculptures by Nanni di Banco, Donatello, and Jacopo della Quercia. The six side windows...
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    the architect Filippo Brunelleschi for sculpture on his buildings. His important commission for the Cantoria ("Singing Gallery"; 1431–1438) of Florence...
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    Baptistery of Florence Cathedral called the Gates of Paradise, the two cantorias, or singing-galleries, designed for the cathedral, one each by Luca della...
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    though designed by Donatello, perhaps using his first idea for the Florence cantoria frieze (see below), they are not believed to have actually been carved...
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    marked the passing of the baton between the two artistic styles. In 1431, a cantoria was commissioned from Luca della Robbia, and in 1433 it was joined by a...
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  • Donatello – Dovizia (Mercato Vecchio lost) 1431–1438: Luca della Robbia – Cantoria (carved singing loft, Florence Cathedral) c.1435: Lorenzo Ghiberti – Gates...
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    Donatello (catalogue of works) (category Sculptures by Donatello)
    length) which could range between around 50 and 75 cm. The size of a sculpture may have been specified as such in contracts or described in sources....
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    Basilica. This latter funereal monument was designed by de Rossi, but the sculptures were completed by Lazzaro Morelli, Ercole Ferrata and Giuseppe Mazzuoli...
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    Scipione Borghese, Cardinal-nephew of Pope Paul V, appropriated this sculpture but, in return, funded the rest of work on the façade and granted the...
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    gilded wrought iron. The sculptors of the transenna also provided the cantoria or projecting choir gallery. The first stage in the decoration of the Sistine...
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    Antoninus and Faustina,: 4  and the Cantoria of Luca della Robbia [it] in Florence, as well as non-Classical sculpture from Ancient Egypt, Assyria and Angkor...
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    collaborated with Mino da Fiesole and Giovanni Dalmata to produce the little cantoria or choristers' gallery set into the wall, with its own coffered ceiling...
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    Robbia, famous for his cantoria gallery at the cathedral, was the first sculptor to use glazed terracotta for large sculptures. Many of the durable works...
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    Giuseppe and Alessandro Catani. Close to the counter-façade, above a wooden cantoria whose bulwark is decorated with a series of ogival arches, rises the pipe...
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  • Andrea Bregno (1418–1503), 9 sculptures : Cantoria, Cappella Sistina, Vatican (url) Antonio Bregno (1425–1457), 1 sculpture : Monument of Francesco Foscari...
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    the organ-case in the right transept remaining in place. For the left cantoria a modern organ was made by Carlo Vegezzi Bossi which was inaugurated on...
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    by the European Museum of the Year contest. Prehistoric Idol cruciform (Cantoria, Almería, Spain). Prehistoric Idol alabaster (Rioja, Almería, Spain). Flint...
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  • region of Teixeira, Paraíba) in the 19th century. Known as "repente" or "cantoria", it is a genre of Brazilian folk music practiced by a pair of singers...
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