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An exploration of the complex decorative scheme painted by Giusto de Menabuoi, which fills the interior of the public baptistry which was commandeered to become a family funerary chapel by Fina Buzzacarina,...
Through a miraculous image of the Madonna, Florence’s grain market and granary became one of the most important and wealthy shrines in the city. Converted into an oratory, it was embellished with a superb...
Analyses the function and design of the Palazzo Pubblico, or city hall, built to honour and beautify the independent city-state. The celebrated frescos by Simone Martini and Ambrogio Lorenzetti provide an...
Examines the complex relationship between medieval and Renaissance Florence. Looks at a number of medieval buildings in Florence, including the Palazzo Vecchio, the Baptistery and San Miniato, and shows how...
Examines a city block in the centre of Florence, which consists principally of domestic buildings, dominated by the Palace of the Guelf Party (14th-16th century). These include a medieval tower-house, the...
The Palazzo Venezia was the first major Renaissance palace to be built in Rome. It was commissioned by the wealthy Venetian Pietro Barbo, to lie alongside the Basilica of San Marco, where he was Cardinal...
Examines the church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Venice built between 1481 and 1489 to the designs of Pietro Lombardo. The church enshrines the miraculous image of the ‘Virgin and Child’, a painting by...
When Cardinal Eneas Silvio Piccolomini became Pope Pius II, he rebuilt his small home town of Corsignano near Siena, into an ideal Renaissance city renamed Pienza. Today, the city is unchanged in scope or...
Sigismondo Malatesta, successful soldier and self-proclaimed prince, undertook the rebuilding of the existing Gothic church of San Francesco, Rimini, into a new classical-style mausoleum for himself and his...
The Sassetti Chapel in the church of Santa Trinita, Florence, is one of the few complete family chapels remaining from the 15th century with its frescoes and altarpiece painted by Domenico Ghirlandaio and...
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