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    Corbel (redirect from Mensola)
    In architecture, a corbel is a structural piece of stone, wood or metal jutting from a wall to carry a superincumbent weight, a type of bracket. A corbel...
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    Order, where its seven holy founders lived in austerity S. Martino di Mensola, with the body of St. Andrew, an Irish saint, still incorrupt Monte Ceceri...
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    May 2016) was an Italian actor and film director. Born in San Martino a Mensola, Tuscany, Albertazzi joined the Italian Social Republic and reached the...
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  • The bishop encouraged Andrew to restore the church of San Martino di Mensola and to found a monastery there. Andrew is commended for his austerity of...
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    part of Florence, Italy. The neighborhood is bordered by the Affrico and Mensola streams, by the slopes of the hills and by the Via Aretina. It is best...
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  • around 876, and Andrew a few years later at the Monastery of San Martino di Mensola at Fiesole, which he had founded at Donatus' suggestion. Andrew was anxious...
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    tower The nave The Madonna col Bambino by the Master of San Martino a Mensola Visione del cuore di Gesù by Antonio Ciseri Ultima Cena by Giovanni Stradano...
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    Pietra del fossato, a "fine-grained variety of pietra serena from the Mensola valley". It was used by Michelangelo in his creation of the Laurentian...
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    archdeacon. He encouraged Andrew to restore the church of San Martino di Mensola and to found a monastery there. Donatus founded a school in Florence under...
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    end of 1546 she was living in a villa just outside of Florence near the Mensola River. She received numerous visitors to her home. Many of which were poets...
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    Their real name was Betti, originally from the area of San Martino a Mensola, a church in Florence. Giusto Betti, whose name was afterwards given to...
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    Arcadian poem, Il Ninfale Fiesolano (the Nymph of Fiesole), celebrates the Mensola, a stream flowing through the property. The scarred and over-quarried hillsides...
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    a watercolour of the Giardino delle Colonne, a pretty pool fed by the Mensola creek, during her visit in 1893. Henry James wrote of the castle: "This...
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    and house in the place called Gamberaia by the Abbess of San Martino a Mensola. The place-name "gamberaia" probably refers to the farming of fresh-water...
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    Credenza tapestry c. 1700–1799 Second floor – 1 Maestro di San Martino a Mensola San Francesco and two donors painting 1385–1390 c. Second floor – 1 Florentine...
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  • Some additions to a late Trecento Florentine: the Master of San Martino a Mensola' (Edam, 1973) Florentine Gothic painters (Secker & Warburg, 1975) God and...
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    personally, may still be seen. He founded the abbey of San Martino di Mensola. Bishop Zenobius in 890 founded the monastery of St. Michael at Passignano...
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