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    The Mosaic ceiling of the Florence Baptistery is a set of mosaics covering the internal dome and apses of the Baptistery of Florence. It is one of the...
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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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    Florence in the mosaics of the building underneath the baptistery) and the juxtaposition of different panels is found in many other examples in the Adriatic...
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    basilicas from the 4th century onwards were decorated with wall and ceiling mosaics. Mosaic art flourished in the Byzantine Empire from the 6th to the 15th centuries;...
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    De Fabris. The cathedral complex, in Piazza del Duomo, includes the Baptistery and Giotto's Campanile. These three buildings are part of the UNESCO World...
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    Granduchi and the Museo dell'Opificio delle Pietre Dure. Several monuments are located in Florence: the Baptistery with its mosaics; the cathedral with...
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    free hand in the artistic scheme, this claim was also made by Lorenzo Ghiberti about his monumental bronze doors for the Florence Baptistery, for which...
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    new panels of scenes from the Book of Genesis to replace medieval ones which had collapsed from the mosaic ceiling of the Florence Baptistery about a century...
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    1290–1300, Santa Trinita, Florence, now Uffizi, Florence Mosaic ceiling at Florence Baptistery, c.1300 Mosaic of Christ enthroned with the Virgin and St John...
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    bronze doors created by Andrea Pisano for the Baptistery in Florence (1329–1336). The interior, subdivided at the front into a central nave flanked by two...
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    Donatello (category 15th-century people from the Republic of Florence)
    returned to Florence in early 1401, in time for Brunelleschi to take part in the famous competition for the Baptistery doors, often seen as the start of Florentine...
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    bells, altar, iconostasis, ambo, and baptistery were removed, while iconography, such as the mosaic depictions of Jesus, Mary, Christian saints and angels...
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    Ravenna (redirect from History of Ravenna)
    buildings of Ravenna are inscribed on the World Heritage List. These are Orthodox Baptistery also called Baptistery of Neon (c. 430) Mausoleum of Galla Placidia...
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    Piazza dei Miracoli (category Sites of papal elections)
    ceiling and a frescoed dome. It was largely redecorated after a fire in 1595, which destroyed most of the Renaissance artworks. The impressive mosaic...
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    Sant'Ambrogio. Other relatively modest mosaics are found in several places, including a 5th-century domed ceiling in the baptistery of Naples Cathedral. Just outside...
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    included the Parma Baptistery by Benedetto Antelami and the Basilica di Sant'Andrea in Vercelli, which showed Antelami's influence. Basilica of San Francesco...
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    large scale Florentine pictorial project is the mosaic decoration of the interior of the dome of the Baptistery of St John, which began around 1225. Although...
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    by John Frederick Lewis, in the museum Copy of The Gates of Paradise - the east doors of The Florence Baptistery. In the Golden Olden Time, by John Atkinson...
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    ceiling and that created in bronze for the doors of the Baptistery of Florence by Lorenzo Ghiberti, the so-called "Gates of Paradise". Many more schemes survive...
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    in Florence approached completion there were number of suggestions as to how to decorate its ceiling. One was that it should be covered with a mosaic decoration...
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    date, stone, Cerreto Guidi, Italy Byzantine mosaic medallion with the Chi Rho on the ceiling of Baptistery of San Giovanni in Fonte, Naples, Italy, unknown...
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    domes at their crossings. The domes of Pisa Cathedral and Florence Baptistery may be the two earliest domes in Tuscany and were the two largest until about...
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    In the angelology of different religions, a hierarchy of angels is a ranking system of angels. The higher ranking angels have greater power and authority...
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    San Miniato al Monte, Florence, has basilical form, open timber roof and decoration of polychrome marble and mosaic. The Church of St. Philibert, Tournus...
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    painted for the church of Santa Trinita, Florence, where it remained until 1471, it is now in the Uffizi Gallery of Florence, Italy. It represents the Madonna...
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    in line with the new precepts of humanist culture and perspective. Following the construction of the north door of Florence's Baptistery, which is similar...
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    rinceaux in the Baptistery of Neon, Ravenna, unknown architect or craftsman, 5th century Byzantine rinceaux on a ceiling of Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna...
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    Crucifix (Cimabue, Santa Croce) (category Paintings in Florence)
    Velázquez to Francis Bacon. The work has been in the Basilica di Santa Croce in Florence since the late thirteenth century, and at the Museo dell'Opera Santa...
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    in the 5th century with this glamorous mosaic Mosaics on a ceiling and some walls of the Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna (Italy), circa 547 AD The Little...
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    the basilica in a clockwise direction they are: The Baptistery, the Chapel of the Presentation of the Virgin, the larger Choir Chapel, the altar of the...
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