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    tombs of bishops of Fiesole, one by Tino di Camaino and another by Nino Pisano. The chancel (or the Cappella Tornabuoni) contains series of famous frescoes...
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    Sistine Chapel (/ˈsɪstiːn/ SIST-een; Latin: Sacellum Sixtinum; Italian: Cappella Sistina [kapˈpɛlla siˈstiːna]) is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the...
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    Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer...
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    Giotto (redirect from Giotto di bondone)
    cura di), Giotto: gli affreschi della Cappella degli Scrovegni a Padova, Skira, Milano, 2002. ISBN 88-8491-229-6. Bellosi, Luciano, La pecora di Giotto...
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    Deke Sharon (category A cappella)
    coach, pioneer, and teacher of a cappella music, and is one of the leaders and promoters of the contemporary a cappella community. He has been referred...
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    painted by the Umbrian Bernardino di Betto, called Pinturicchio, probably based on designs by Raphael. The frescoes tell the story of the life of Siena's...
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    Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi (c. 1386 – 13 December 1466), known mononymously as Donatello (English: /ˌdɒnəˈtɛloʊ/; Italian: [donaˈtɛllo]), was an...
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    barons. On the side of the castle facing the sea is the back wall of the Cappella palatina, or church of San Sebastiano or that of Santa Barbara, the only...
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  • round featured the 113 contestants from the auditions round singing solo a cappella. 51 contestants advanced. The next round required the contestants to split...
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    Philip II excused himself from the occasion. He sent the Duke of Alba to tell Catherine to scrap the Edict of Amboise and to find punitive solutions to...
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    Italian: Antonio di/da Padova; Latin: Antonius Patavinus) or Anthony of Lisbon (Portuguese: António/Antônio de Lisboa; Italian: Antonio da/di Lisbona; Latin:...
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    statues, paintings, polychrome marble, and gold leaf. The Cappella della Beata Vergine di Lourdes (Chapel of Our Lady of Lourdes) was completed in 1907...
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    Bobby McFerrin (category A cappella musicians)
    often end with McFerrin conducting the orchestra in an a cappella rendition of the "William Tell Overture," in which the orchestra members sing their musical...
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  • Dion DiMucci) 1975: Cheek to Cheek 1982: Rock 'n' Roll Traveling Show 1988: The Season of Harmony (A Cappella Christmas) 2009: Anthology, Vol. 1 Tell Me...
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    Spanish punk rock band Boikot recorded a modified version in Spanish. An a cappella version was recorded by The Swingle Singers in 1991 on their album Folk...
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    at his glorious career at its culminating point. The composer of William Tell stands proudly before you in his eminence, and you realize with astonishment...
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    The Capture of Rome (Italian: Presa di Roma) occurred on 20 September 1870, as forces of the Kingdom of Italy took control of the city and of the Papal...
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  • night on motorbikes. In 1987, Canadian quartet the Nylons released an a cappella version of this song as a single under the shortened title "Kiss Him Goodbye"...
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    Age of Globalization and Mediatization. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 155–176. Cappella, Joseph N.; Jamieson, Kathleen Hall (1997). Spiral of cynicism: The press...
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    cagata/cacata: Bullshit, crap. Vai a cagare/cacare: fuck you, fuck off. cappella: the glans of the penis. scappellare: to lower the foreskin to uncover...
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    Kid Cudi (redirect from KiD CuDi)
    known by his stage name Kid Cudi (/ˈkʌdi/ KUD-ee; formerly stylized as KiD CuDi), is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, and fashion...
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    Filarete (1464). Trattato di architettura. De Vecchi & Cerchiari (1999, p. 78) Guidetti, Giovanni Matteo (1998). La Cappella del Cardinale del Portogallo...
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    However, it can be inferred from Roman monumental sources such as the Cappella Greca and the Sacrament Chapels of the catacomb of St. Callistus that the...
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    the time he was 12, he began lessons with Ferdinando Provesi, maestro di cappella at San Bartolomeo, director of the municipal music school and co-director...
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    was proclaimed (Kantner, Leopold M, and Pachovsky, Angela (1998). 6: La Cappella musicale Pontificia nell'Ottocento. Rome: Hortus Musicus; p. 24 (in Italian)...
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    system of tracking debits and credits or deposits and withdrawals. Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici established the bank in Florence, and while he and his family...
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    Fragments of the song are sung a cappella in the movie Titanic (1997), early on by the character Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) to Rose (Kate Winslet) during...
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    father received a papal commission (to contribute a marble relief to the Cappella Paolina of Santa Maria Maggiore) and so moved from Naples to Rome, taking...
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    BMG). Cappella Coloniensis, conducted by Bruno Weil, recorded it in 2003. Casaglia, Gherardo (2005). "Abu Hassan (4 June 1811". L'Almanacco di Gherardo...
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    survives a Mass in C major written without a "Gloria" and in the antique a cappella style (presumably for one of the church's penitential seasons) and dated...
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