• Thumbnail for St Mark's Basilica
    the Patriarch of Venice in 1807, replacing the earlier cathedral of San Pietro di Castello. It is dedicated to and holds the relics of Saint Mark the...
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  • Thumbnail for San Domenico, Bologna
    where the remains of the saint rest in the splendid Arca di San Domenico under the cupola which contains three Michelangelo sculptures, Angel, St. Proclus...
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  • Thumbnail for Basilica of San Lorenzo, Milan
    which includes both the Basilica of San Lorenzo and the Basilica of Sant'Eustorgio, as well as the Roman Colonne di San Lorenzo. The basilica was built between...
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  • San Pietro (Church of St Peter) is a Byzantine style, Roman Catholic church located in the town of Frascineto, Province of Cosenza, region of Calabria...
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    (1707) for the cupola of San Nazaro in Brolo (Milan). His other fresco was the Night of Hercules (or Heracles) and Hebe (Le nozze di Ercole e Ebe) at...
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    Lanfranco, who also frescoed the impressive Glory of Paradise (1625–28) in the cupola, with figures of the evangelists in the pendentives (1621–1628) by his rival...
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  • Thumbnail for San Pietro, Reggio Emilia
    San Pietro (Saint Peter) is a Baroque style, Roman Catholic church located on Via Campo Samarotto #1, with a facade along Via Emilia San Pietro, in the...
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  • preached in this church. The ceilings and cupola are decorated with quadratura frescoes (1765-1774) by Pietro Antonio Pozzo and Gallo Barelli. In the presbytery...
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  • Thumbnail for Complex of San Firenze
    The Complesso di San Firenze (Complex of San Firenze) is a 17th-century Baroque-style building, consisting of a church, palace, and former oratory, located...
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  • Thumbnail for Andrea Palladio
    November 1508 in Padua and was given the name Andrea di Pietro della Gondola. His father, Pietro, called "della Gondola", was a miller. From an early...
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  • Thumbnail for San Giuseppe, Florence
    also contains two canvases by Santi di Tito: a Nativity and St Francesco di Paola heals the Sick. Frescoed Cupola by Atanasio Bimbacci from 2nd chapel...
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  • Thumbnail for San Dalmazio, Volterra
    Giovanni Balducci. Guida per la citta di Volterra, by Pietro Torrini; Volterra (1832): page 151-153. Wikimedia Commons has media related to San Dalmazio....
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  • Thumbnail for San Sisto, Piacenza
    Procaccini and another painting by Jacopo Palma il Giovane in the choir. The cupola at the center of the transept was frescoed by Bernardino Zacchetti. At the...
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  • Thumbnail for San Girolamo dei Croati
    Baroque Rome, Granada, 1982, p. 254-5 "Chiesa di San Girolamo dei Croati", Religiana.com "Gagliardi, Pietro", Treccani Fine, John V.A.. When Ethnicity Did...
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  • century, and reconstructed in the present layout in the mid-18th century. The cupola has an oval shape, and the interior has a baroque richness recalling Borromini...
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  • Thumbnail for San Sisto, Genoa
    Giovanni Battista Resasco and Pietro Pellegrini, the cupola was frescoed by Michel Cesare Danielli. The statue of San Sisto on the main altar was completed...
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  • and the cupola of the Sarzana Cathedral. One source says he died in 1736. Memorie biografiche degli scultori, architetti, pittori ec: nativi di Massa,...
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  • Thumbnail for Pieve di Cento
    Cento-Pieve di Cento-Bologna (direct) 453 San Giorgio di Piano-Venazzano-Pieve di Cento-Cento 455 Cento-Pieve di Cento-San Pietro in Casale 456 Cento-Pieve di Cento-Poggetto-San...
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  • Thumbnail for Collegiate Basilica of San Sebastiano, Acireale
    the lunette in the right transept. In the choir and the spandrels of the cupola, Vasta depicts scenes of the life of St Sebastian. In the Chapel of the...
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  • depicting the four evangelists (after 1850) by Pietro Biancale. It houses a painting of San Bernardo di Chiaravalle (1770) by Marco Caricchia; a Madonna...
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  • Thumbnail for San Nicola da Tolentino agli Orti Sallustiani
    church of San Nicolò da Tolentino in Venice, the Basilica di San Nicola in the town of Tolentino in the province of Macerata, or the Oratorio di San Nicola...
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  • Thumbnail for Illusionistic ceiling painting
    a step farther in his frescoes of Christ and the Apostles for the cupola at the San Giovanni Evangelista and in the Assumption of the Virgin in the dome...
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  • Thumbnail for Santissime Stimmate di San Francesco
    The Ss. Stimmate di San Francesco ("Church of the Holy Stigmata of St. Francis") is a church in central Rome, Italy, in the Rione Pigna, sited where previously...
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  • Thumbnail for St. Peter's Square
    Saint Peter's Square (Latin: Forum Sancti Petri, Italian: Piazza San Pietro [ˈpjattsa sam ˈpjɛːtro]) is a large plaza located directly in front of St....
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  • Thumbnail for San Pietro, Parma
    San Pietro or San Pietro Apostolo is a Neoclassic-style, Roman Catholic church located on Piazza Garibaldi in Parma. A church of San Pietro in Parma is...
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  • Thumbnail for Collegiata of San Fiorenzo, Fiorenzuola d'Arda
    Oratory della Buona Morte with an oval cupola. Emilia Romagna, by Touring Club Italiano, page 622. parish of san Fiorenzo Archived 2015-04-16 at the Wayback...
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  • Thumbnail for San Salvatore in Lauro
    designs of the Bolognese Ottaviano Mascherino. San Salvatore in Lauro has been the Sanctuary of the Madonna di Loreto in Rome since 1600. Pope Innocent X...
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  • Thumbnail for San Bartolomeo, Busseto
    are frescoes depicting Saints James the Minor and Bernard by Pietro Balestra. The cupola of the Chapel of the Virgin of the Rosary, was frescoed with...
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    Cappella dei Principi (category Burials at San Lorenzo, Florence)
    construction of the large windows and cupola, and the internal decoration of the vault, which was executed by the painter Pietro Benvenuti between 1828 and 1837...
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  • Thumbnail for Andrea del Verrocchio
    trained at his workshop. His pupils included Leonardo da Vinci, Pietro Perugino and Lorenzo di Credi. His greatest importance was as a sculptor and his last...
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