Orvieto (Italian: [orˈvjɛːto]) is a city and comune in the Province of Terni, southwestern Umbria, Italy, situated on the flat summit of a large butte...
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Orvieto Cathedral (Italian: Duomo di Orvieto; Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta) is a large 14th-century Roman Catholic cathedral dedicated to the Assumption...
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Orvieto is a city and comune in the Province of Terni, southwestern Umbria, Italy. Orvieto may also refer to: Orvieto (album), live album by pianists...
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Orvieto is an Italian wine region located in Umbria and Lazio, centered on the comune of Orvieto. It is primarily known for its white wines made from a...
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administratively a frazione of the comune of Orvieto, province of Terni. Titignano is about 63 km from Terni and 30 km from Orvieto, and it's located north to the Corbara...
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Luca Signorelli (section Work in Orvieto)
foreshortening. His massive frescos of the Last Judgment (1499–1503) in Orvieto Cathedral are considered his masterpiece. In his early 40s he returned...
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Orvieto, Umbria, Italy, was the refuge of five popes during the 13th century: Urban IV (1261–1264), Gregory X (1271–1276), Martin IV (1281–1285), Nicholas...
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Orvieto is a live album by pianists Chick Corea and Stefano Bollani recorded in Italy in 2010 and released on the ECM label. The AllMusic review by William...
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di San Patrizio (English: "Well of St. Patrick") is a historic well in Orvieto, Umbria, central Italy. The city is high on the flat summit of a large...
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Orvieto ware is tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) originally manufactured at Orvieto, Italy, where it was produced from the 13th century. Orvieto ware...
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Pietro di Niccolò da Orvieto (1430–1484) was an Italian Renaissance painter. Not much is known about Pietro di Niccolò da Orvieto's life except through...
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Ugolino of Forlì (redirect from Ugolino of Orvieto)
Ugolino of Forlì (Italian: Ugolino da Forlì) or Ugolino of Orvieto (Italian: Ugolino da Orvieto; c. 1380 – c. 23–31 January 1452) was an Italian music theorist...
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The Orvieto Funicular (Italian: Funicolare di Orvieto) is a funicular railway in the Italian city of Orvieto. It connects Orvieto station with Piazza...
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San Domenico is a church in Orvieto, Umbria, central Italy. It was begun in 1233, a few years after St. Dominic's death, and it is one of the first churches...
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The Diocese of Orvieto-Todi (Latin: Dioecesis Urbevetana-Tudertina) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in central...
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Italian Gothic architecture (section Orvieto Cathedral)
beams across the nave to support the upper walls. Facade of Orvieto Cathedral Nave of Orvieto Cathedral Milan Cathedral, also called the Duomo, was begun...
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Giovanna da Orvieto (1264 - 23 July 1306) was an Italian Dominican tertiary. She was known for her wise intellect and for her intense devotion to serving...
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Orvieto railway station (Stazione di Orvieto) is a station in Orvieto, Umbria, Italy. It is located on the Florence–Rome railway. Its buildings and infrastructure...
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Andrea Pisano (Pontedera 1290 – 1348 Orvieto) also known as Andrea da Pontedera, was an Italian sculptor and architect. Pisano initially learned the trade...
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Mass. Today the Corporal of Bolsena is preserved in a rich reliquary at Orvieto in the cathedral. The reddish spots on the cloth, upon close observation...
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only comuni (municipalities) with a population over 10,000 were Terni, Orvieto, Narni and Amelia. It is bordered to the north with the province of Perugia...
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Francesco is a church in Orvieto, Umbria, Italy. It was consecrated in 1266. It belongs to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orvieto-Todi. The Franciscans established...
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Laura Orvieto, born Laura Cantoni (7 March 1876 - 9 May 1953) was a Jewish Italian writer, intellectual and women's rights activist. Many of her most...
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Hugolino of Orvieto, O.S.A. was an important Scholastic theologian and Augustinian friar of the fourteenth century, representing the Augustinian School...
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Fanum Voltumnae (section Orvieto)
shrine is still unknown, though it may have been in an area near modern Orvieto, believed by many to be the ancient Volsinii. Livy describes the meetings...
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di Risparmio di Orvieto S.p.A. is an Italian bank based in Orvieto, in the Province of Terni, Umbria. Cassa di Risparmio di Orvieto was found in 1863...
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Chiesa di Sant'Andrea is a church on the Piazza della Repubblica in Orvieto, Umbria, central Italy. It dates to the 12th century and is noted for its...
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early-Baroque sculptor active mostly in Rome, Piacenza and Orvieto. His dramatic early works in Orvieto are now often regarded as the first truly Baroque sculptures...
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(sometimes termed Volsinii Veteres – Old Volsinii), the other candidate being Orvieto, 20 km (12 mi) NE. George Dennis pointed out that the town of Bolsena has...
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elements. as seen in the façades of Siena Cathedral ) and of Orvieto Cathedral, The Orvieto façade was largely the work of a master mason, Lorenzo Maitani...
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