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Dormition of the virgin (Pseudo-Byzantine mock mosaic) [1892]

Dormition of the virgin

(Pseudo-Byzantine painting in the apse by artist Arturo Viligiardi looking like mosaic ) [1892]

Chiusi, Tuscany, concattedrale and Duomo di San Secundino (Secondiano)

Original photo by courtesy of dreamstime

 

The walls of the navata, the apse and various other parts of the cathedral are covered from paintings in false mosaic works of Sienese artist Arturo Viligiardi. The iconographic program of the painted apse was inspired by the mosaic of the same topic in Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome.

 

www.borghiditoscana.net/en/chiusi-en/#

it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concattedrale_di_San_Secondiano

 

fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Viligiardi

 

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