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    The Certosa di Pavia is a monastery complex in Lombardy, Northern Italy, situated near a small village of the same name in the Province of Pavia, 8 km...
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    Certosa di Pavia (Pavese dialect: Certusa dè Pavia or la Certùsa) is a town and comune (municipality) in the province of Pavia, Lombardy, Italy. It is...
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    The Certosa di Pavia Altarpiece was an oil on panel altarpiece by Pietro Perugino. It dates to around 1496 to 1500 and three of its panels are now in the...
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    Gian Galeazzo Visconti (category People from Pavia)
    uncle Bernabò. He was the founding patron of the Certosa di Pavia, completing the Visconti Castle at Pavia begun by his father and furthering work on the...
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  • Italy Certosa di Parma Certosa di Pavia Certosa di Pavia (comune), a small town in Lombardy near to, and named after the monastery Certosa di San Martino...
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    Pavia. The city possesses many artistic and cultural treasures, including several important churches and museums, such as the well known Certosa di Pavia...
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    Certosa di Pavia railway station is a railway station in Italy. Located on the Milan–Genoa railway, it serves the municipality of Certosa di Pavia. The...
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    the castle, the Visconti created a vast walled park that reached the Certosa di Pavia, a Carthusian monastery founded in 1396 by the Visconti as well and...
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    construction site intended exclusively for the Visconti dynasty: the Certosa di Pavia. Work proceeded quickly, and at the death of Gian Galeazzo in 1402...
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    Maffioli, then the Buffa, supplied the marble for the facade of the Certosa di Pavia, also taking care of the transport of the material which, by ship,...
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    Burgundian School. His fame is principally associated with his work at the Certosa di Pavia complex, composed of the church and convent of the Carthusians. It...
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    Located in Lombardy, northern Italy, it extended between Pavia Castle and the Certosa di Pavia monastery. It covered an area of about 2,200 hectares (22 km2)...
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    1520-22), Museum of the Certosa di Pavia. Saint Martin (c. 1520-22), Museum of the Certosa di Pavia. Female portrait (1521-23), Pavia Civic Museums. Frescoes...
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    built in the Certosa di Pavia and confirmed all the privileges granted by his predecessors to the monastery, thus exploiting the Certosa as a link between...
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    Palazzo Schifanoia for Borso d'Este. In Milan, under the Visconti, the Certosa di Pavia was completed, and then later under the Sforza, the Castello Sforzesco...
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    to his daughter. Filippo Maria Visconti, who had become nominal ruler of Pavia in 1402, succeeded his assassinated brother Gian Maria Visconti as Duke...
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    Madonna and Saints for the Certosa of Pavia, now disassembled and scattered among museums: the only portion in the Certosa is God the Father with cherubim...
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    cenotaph lid of the dukes Ludovico il Moro and Beatrice d'Este for the Certosa di Pavia, carved between 1497 and 1499. For a while people thought he had sculpted...
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  • whilst employed extensively on work at the Milan cathedral, and at the Certosa di Pavia. In 1490 he accompanied his brother to Venice, where he seems to have...
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    in August, the body (with a leg missing) was tracked down to the Certosa di Pavia, a monastery not far from Milan. Two Franciscan friars were charged...
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    Torre del Mangano (category Municipalities of the Province of Pavia)
    del Mangano is a frazione and the seat of the municipality of the Certosa di Pavia comune. The comune bore the name of Torre del Mangano until 1929, when...
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    the main Lombard construction sites: the cathedral of Milan and the Certosa di Pavia. Methane was first discovered and isolated by Alessandro Volta as he...
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    Vincenzo's 1575 altarpiece, Christ Nailed to the Cross (Museo della Certosa di Pavia) that shows the artist's developing Lombard naturalism. The crucifixion...
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    Certosa di Pavia. Gian Galeazzo Visconti, hereditary lord and first Duke of Milan, first commissioned Solari as a chief architect of the Certosa di Pavia...
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    the Certosa di Pavia. Despite being called "da Venezia", there is no evidence of any activity in Venice. It is mentioned for the first time in Pavia in...
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    Ghibellines was raised against the Duke when Facino Cane was terminally ill in Pavia, and Gian Maria was assassinated in front of the church of San Gottardo...
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    ultramarine The Wilton Diptych (c. 1395–1399) Unknown artist Detail from the Certosa di Pavia Altarpiece (c. 1496–1500) Pietro Perugino Het melkmeisje (1658) Johannes...
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    term comes from Carthusian monasteries (Certosa in Italian, Charterhouse in English), probably the Certosa di Pavia, where the technique was used in ornamenting...
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    either Filarete or Guiniforte Solari, architect of the apses of the Certosa di Pavia and the church of San Pietro in Gessate in Milan. The Portinari Chapel...
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    Venice that are also undated. In 1490 he painted an altarpiece for the Certosa di Pavia showing the Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saint John the Baptist...
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