Category: Italy
Gubbio: The Duomo
Gubbio: San Domenico
Gubbio: San Giovanni Battista
Gubbio: Sant’Agostino
Gubbio: San Francesco
Umbria: Amelia (part 2)
The church of San Francesco is located right next to the archaeological museum of Amelia. It replaced an earlier parish church dedicated to Saints Philip and James. My travel guide actually still calls the building the church of Santi Filippo e Giacomo, and this caused some confusion at the tourist…
Umbria: Amelia (part 1)
Umbria: Carsulae
Spoleto: Museo Diocesano and Sant’Eufemia
Spoleto: San Gregorio Maggiore
Spoleto: Remains of a Roman city
The area around Spoleto has been inhabited since at least the eighth century BCE. Rich grave finds from several necropolises demonstrate that there must have been a settlement here of some importance. Excavations in 2008-2009 in the Piazza d’Armi, north of the railway station, have for instance uncovered the tomb…
Spoleto: San Paolo inter vineas
Spoleto: San Pietro
Spoleto: San Ponziano
Spoleto: Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Spoleto: The Duomo
Spoleto’s cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta or Duomo can certainly be counted among the city’s many highlights. The current Duomo was built in the late twelfth and early thirteenth century and replaced an earlier cathedral which seems to date from the eighth or ninth century. This earlier cathedral, known as…
Giotto in Rome
The Florentine painter and architect Giotto di Bondone (ca. 1266-1337) can be counted among the most important Italian artists of all time. Among his most famous works are the frescoes in the Cappella degli Scrovegni in Padova, the campanile of the cathedral of Florence and – probably – various frescoes…
Gentile da Fabriano at the Uffizi
Assisi: Basilica di San Francesco
“Of all the Roman monuments at the end of the thirteenth century, the most Roman was, paradoxically, the double basilica of San Francesco in Assisi, the mother church of the new order of Franciscan friars”.[1] I can only agree with this assessment by Giotto expert Francesca Flores d’Arcais. The Basilica…