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Florence, Italy
December 13th, 2018
All photos © Joshua Mellin per the guidelines listed under "Owner settings" to the right.
Started by Vasari and completed by Zuccaro, painted on the interior of Brunelleschi's dome that sits on the Cathedral of Florence.
The view of the city of Verona from the terrace of Castel San Pietro, with Il Duomo to the left, beside the River Adige.
Verona’s Duomo was consecrated in 1187, having been built on the site of an ancient Christian structure, and has served as one of the city’s many centres of religious devotion ever since.
It has been worked on for almost all of its 825-year history, with major restoration carried out in the 15th and 16th centuries and the bell tower added in 1927.
The interior is a mixture of architectural styles, from Romanesque in its lower levels to Gothic the higher up you go, which each chapel has its own individual feel.
There is a grand organ and artwork by the likes of Titian and Falconetto decorating the interior.
The Duomo is part of a larger cathedral complex with the churches of San Giovanni in Fonte and Sant’Elana, the latter built roughly over the location of a fourth-century basilica.
Recent restoration has involved the restoration of the frescoes and the lighting system.
Ponte Pietra (the Stone Bridge) is a Roman arch bridge crossing the River Adige to the north of the old city centre in Verona.
It was completed by the start of the first century BC and provided access from the city to the Roman Theatre on the slopes of Veronetta.
German soldiers destroyed much of the bridge as they fled at the end of the Second World War, with restoration taking place in 1957, using original materials.
☞ Premere L per una migliore visione ingrandita
☞ Push 'L' for full screen view - It's better
Fuji FinePix X100, Fujinon aspherical 23mm f/2, ISO 400, 1/125s, f/4, Crop
La Catedral de Milán. Maravilloso edificio totalmente hecho de mármol.
The Cathedral of Milan. Wonderful building completely made of marble.
The Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore ("Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Flower") is the main church of Florence, Italy. Il Duomo di Firenze, as it is ordinarily called, was begun in 1296 in the Gothic style with the design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed structurally in 1436 with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi. The exterior of the basilica is faced with polychrome marble panels in various shades of green and pink bordered by white and has an elaborate 19th-century Gothic Revival façade by Emilio De Fabris. (Source: Wikipedia)
La Torre Pendente / The leaning tower of Pisa - Piazza dei Miracoli & Il Duomo di Pisa - Toscana / Tuscany - Italia / Italy
“I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend”
-J.R.R. Tolkien (Lord of the Rings, page 672)
Baptistery / Baptisterium - Piazza Dei Miracoli - Il Duomo Di Pisa / Pisa Cathedral - Toscana / Tuscany - Italia / Italy
The view of Verona's grand Il Dumo and the Santuario nostra Signora di Lourdes up on the hill from the top of the Torre dei Lamberti.
Verona’s Duomo was consecrated in 1187, having been built on the site of an ancient Christian structure, and has served as one of the city’s many centres of religious devotion ever since.
It has been worked on for almost all of its 825-year history, with major restoration carried out in the 15th and 16th centuries and the bell tower added in 1927.
The interior is a mixture of architectural styles, from Romanesque in its lower levels to Gothic the higher up you go, which each chapel has its own individual feel.
There is a grand organ and artwork by the likes of Titian and Falconetto decorating the interior.
The Duomo is part of a larger cathedral complex with the churches of San Giovanni in Fonte and Sant’Elana, the latter built roughly over the location of a fourth-century basilica.
Recent restoration has involved the restoration of the frescoes and the lighting system.
The Santuario nostra Signora di Lourdes (Santuario della Madonna di Lourdes) is a Christian shrine based in an old Austrian fort in the hills above Verona.
The shrine was originally in the centre of Verona, but was damaged during bombing in the Second World War and relocated to its present site – built in 1838.
During the Second World War, the fortress was used as a prison for Allied soldiers and the Jewish population of the area.
The Torre dei Lamberti is Verona’s highest tower, standing 272ft (83m) tall between the Piazza delle Erbe and the Piazza dei Signori in the centre of the old city.
It was built in the 12th century, with alterations made during the Renaissance and the 19th century and you take a lift and climb 125 steps to the top for views out over Verona.
The large clock was added in 1779 and there are four bells, each with a different purpose – to signal time, fires, the start of work and a call to arms for the city.
The Basilica di San Lorenzo (Basilica of St Lawrence) to the center right.
Situated at the centre of the city’s main market district, and the burial place of all the principal members of the Medici family from Cosimo il Vecchio to Cosimo III. It is one of several churches that claim to be the oldest in Florence; when it was consecrated in 393 it stood outside the city walls.
For three hundred years it was the city's cathedral before the official seat of the bishop was transferred to Santa Reparata. San Lorenzo was also the parish church of the Medici family.
Duomo di Firenze / Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore - Piazza del Duomo - Firenze / Florence - UNESCO World Heritage Site - Toscana / Tuscany - Italia / Italy
Baptistery / Baptisterium - Il Duomo - La Torre Pendente / The Leaning Tower of Pisa - Piazza dei Miracoli - Pisa - Toscana / Tuscany - Italia / Italy
Details best viewed in Original Size.
The Museo dell'Opera del Duomo (Museum of the Works of the Cathedral) in Florence, Italy is a museum containing many of the original works of art created for the Cattedrale di Santa Maria dei Fiore, the Cathedral (Duomo) and the Battistero di San Giovanni (Baptistery of Saint John) in Florence. The museum is located just east of the Duomo, near its apse. It opened in 1891, and now houses what has been called "one of the world's most important collections of sculpture". The Lorenzo Ghiberti doors which now occupy the place of the originals in the Baptistery of Saint John are replicas made by the Galleria Frilli. The image seen above are of the originals now at the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo.
After the completion of the North Doors, Ghiberti was widely recognized as a celebrity and the top artist in this field. He was given many commissions, including some from the pope. In 1425 he got a second commission for the Florence Baptistery, this time for the east doors, on which he and his workshop (including Michelozzo and Benozzo Gozzoli) would toil for 27 years, surpassing themselves. The subjects of the designs for the doors were chosen by Leonardo Bruni d'Arezzo, then chancellor of the Republic of Florence. These have ten panels depicting scenes from the Old Testament and were in turn installed on the east side. The panels are large rectangles and were no longer embedded in the traditional Gothic quatrefoil, as in the North Doors. Ghiberti employed the recently discovered principles of perspective to give depth to his compositions. Each panel depicts more than one episode. "The Story of Joseph" portrays the narrative scheme of Joseph Cast by His Brethren into the Well, Joseph Sold to the Merchants, the merchants delivering Joseph to the pharaoh, Joseph Interpreting the Pharaoh's dream, The Pharaoh Paying him Honour, Jacob Sends His Sons to Egypt and Joseph Recognizes His Brothers and Returns Home. According to Vasari's Lives, this panel was the most difficult and also the most beautiful. The figures are distributed in very low relief in a perspective space (a technique invented by Donatello and called rilievo schiacciato, which literally means "flattened relief"). Ghiberti uses different sculptural techniques, from incised lines to almost free-standing figure sculpture within the panels, further accentuating the sense of space. The ten panels are included in a richly decorated gilt framework of foliage and fruit, with many statuettes of prophets and 24 busts. The two central busts are portraits of the artist and of his father, Bartolomeo Ghiberti. Michelangelo referred to these doors as fit to be the "Gates of Paradise" (Porte del Paradiso), and they are still invariably referred to by this name. Giorgio Vasari described them a century later as "undeniably perfect in every way and must rank as the finest masterpiece ever created". Ghiberti himself said they were "the most singular work that I have ever made".
Unfortunately, these doors are kept behind glass in a fairly brightly lit room and that leads to the strong reflections from the glass seen here, especially toward the top of the image. I could have used a polarizer, but that would have led to a new set of problems which would have yielded a lower quality image.
Additional information may be obtained at Wikipedia (Museo dell'Opera del Duomo) and Wikipedia (Lorenzo Ghiberti).