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The spectacle of the Baptistery of Padua: the frescoes of Giusto de' Menabuoi

Inside the Baptistery of Pad ua is preserved one of the masterpieces of Paduan painting from the second half of the 14th century. The realization of the pictorial decoration of the sacred building was entrusted to the Florentine painter Giusto de' Me...
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The doors of the Baptistery of Florence, Lorenzo Ghiberti's masterpiece

On November 23, 1403, Lorenzo Ghiberti (Pelago, 1378 - Florence, 1455) signed the contract for the construction of the North Door of the Baptistery of San Giovanni in Florence. This was the final outcome of the competition announced in 1401 by theArt...
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A new painting: Masaccio's Trinity

On the wall of the third arch of the left aisle of the Dominican basilica of Santa Maria Novella in Florence is a fresco that is considered the programmatic manifesto of the new Renaissance painting. It is the Trinity, the last work created by Masacc...
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Giovanni Pisano's Pistoia pulpit, an innovative masterpiece

At the beginning of the 14th century, the church of Sant'Andrea in Pistoia was provided with new and important liturgical furnishings. By 1301, in fact, the sculptor Giovanni Pisano created a pulpit for this space that marked important novelties with...
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"A gay painting": the Madonna of the Belvedere by Ottaviano Nelli.

During the 19th century, the growing romantic interest in themedieval age drew travelers to a number of Italian centers that had more or less preserved evidence of that bygone era. Among these was Gubbio, an Umbrian town whose historic center...
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Giotto, the Santa Maria Novella Crucifix: the first real Christ on the Cross in Italian painting

In the Florentine church of Santa Maria Novella is a work that, at the end of the 13th century, marked a caesura in the history of Italian art. Entering the church, raising our gaze along the nave, we can in fact admire a painted cross belong...
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The Majesty of Duccio di Buoninsegna: a masterpiece of Italian art history

In a document dated June 30, 1311, preserved in theState Archives of Siena, there is evidence of payment to four musicians of the City of Siena for their services during the transport of a table depicting the Virgin Mary. The reference is to a fa...
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The Brancacci Chapel: the new look at painting.

In Florence, in theOltrarno area, among the many magnificent places that can be visited, one was described by the neoclassical painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres as the "true cradle of painting." This is the Brancacci Chapel, which is lo...
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