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    The Pisa Baptistery of St. John (Italian: Battistero di San Giovanni) is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical building in Pisa, Italy. Construction started...
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    The pulpit in the Pisa Baptistery was completed by Nicola Pisano and his assistants in 1260, and has long been regarded as a landmark in Italian art,...
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    expressly built as a baptistery, provided a widely followed model. The baptistery might be twelve-sided, or even circular as at Pisa. In a narthex or anteroom...
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    Leaning Tower of Pisa (Italian: torre pendente di Pisa [ˈtorre penˈdɛnte di ˈpiːza, - ˈpiːsa]), or simply the Tower of Pisa (torre di Pisa), is the campanile...
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    the year 1260, the year that Nicola Pisano dated his pulpit in the Pisa baptistery. On the other hand, as the pulpit of the Siena Cathedral shows, Nicola...
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    8 November 2016. Piazza dei Miracoli Archdiocese of Pisa Leaning Tower of Pisa Baptistery of Pisa History of medieval Arabic and Western European domes...
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    dominated by four great religious edifices: Pisa Cathedral, the Pisa Baptistery, the Leaning Tower of Pisa (the cathedral's campanile or bell tower), and...
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    Pisa (/ˈpiːzə/ PEE-zə; Italian: [ˈpiːza] or [ˈpiːsa]) is a city and comune (municipality) in Tuscany, central Italy, straddling the Arno just before it...
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    especially those on the large raised pulpits of the pulpit in the Pisa Baptistery (dated 1260) and Siena Cathedral Pulpit. He had a large workshop, including...
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    The Florence Baptistery, also known as the Baptistery of Saint John (Italian: Battistero di San Giovanni), is a religious building in Florence, Italy....
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    famous Rotunda church in Thessaloniki, Greece The Pisa Baptistery at the Piazza dei Miracoli, Pisa, Italy The most well known Danish rotunda is the village...
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    flags of the Italian Navy and the Italian Merchant Navy: Amalfi, Genoa, Pisa, and Venice. In addition to the four best known cities, Ancona, Gaeta, Noli...
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    Bogolyubov. The artwork captures the essence of the Pisa Baptistery and the Pisa Cathedral. "Pisa. View of the Baptisterium and the Cathedral". rusmuseumvrm...
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    panels on their pulpit of Siena Cathedral (1265–68), Pulpit in the Pisa Baptistery, the Fontana Maggiore in Perugia, and Giovanni's pulpit in Pistoia...
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    on a location in Pisa that later became known as Piazza dei Miracoli. In a succession, the Pisa Cathedral (Duomo), Pisa Baptistery, the bell tower (now...
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    1301. It has many similarities with the groundbreaking pulpit in the Pisa Baptistery of 1260 by Giovanni's father Nicola Pisano, which was followed by the...
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    manuscript, carbon dated to the 15th century. An inscription in the Pisa Baptistery. Cretan hieroglyphs Phaistos disc Linear A Cypro-Minoan syllabary Southwest...
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    sets of reliefs, especially those on the large raised pulpits of the baptistery at Pisa (dated 1260) and Siena Cathedral. He had a large workshop, including...
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    rot in just 24 hours. The burial ground lies over the ruins of the old baptistery of the church of Santa Reparata, the church that once stood where the...
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    Beatrice of Lorraine in the Camposanto in Pisa. This was the model for Nicola Pisano's work on the Pisa Baptistery in the mid-thirteenth century. Alexandre...
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    Romanesque pulpits in Italy. The carved marble eagle on the Pulpit in the Pisa Baptistery by Nicola Pisano (1260) is a famous example, and they also feature...
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    relief panels on their Siena Cathedral Pulpit (1265–68), Pulpit in the Pisa Baptistery (1260), the Fontana Maggiore in Perugia, and Giovanni's pulpit in Pistoia...
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    reliefs of the doors of the Florence Baptistery by Lorenzo Ghiberti, a young sculptor in his twenties. The Baptistery already had two doors carved by Andrea...
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    of Siena. Nicola had earned fame from his work on the pulpit in the Pisa Baptistery, which he had finished in 1260. This contract stipulated precise clauses...
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    near Bari, in southern Italy, and on the columns of the pulpit in the Pisa Baptistery, carved by the Apulian-born sculptor Nicola Pisano in 1260. The capitals...
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    in the Italian Duecento, with the best known including those of the Pisa Baptistery (dated 1260) and Siena Cathedral Pulpit by Nicola Pisano and the Pulpit...
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    from 1113), it was designed by Diotisalvi, who also designed the Baptistery of Pisa Cathedral forty years later. It has an octagonal plan and, until the...
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  • late medieval best-seller. Nicola Pisano sculpts the pulpit in the Pisa Baptistery. The mosaic Christ between the Virgin and St Minias is made on the...
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    Lorenzo Ghiberti also contributed to the cathedral. Pulpit in the Pisa Baptistery by Nicola Pisano; 1260; marble; height: 4.6 m. Crucifix; by Cimabue;...
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    the monument). Nicola Pisano, already famous for his pulpit in the Pisa Baptistery, was asked in 1264 to construct this sarcophagus. He was certainly...
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