The museum of the Duomo of Prato is housed in the rooms below and adjacent to the cathedral. The entrance is located in Guidetto’s splendid bell-tower from about 1220, and from there one enters a corridor that leads to the so-called Volte. The name refers to the vaults of the…
Het museum van de Duomo van Prato bevindt zich in de ruimtes onder en naast de kathedraal. De ingang is in de fraaie klokkentoren van Guidetto uit ca. 1220 en vandaar gaat men via een gang naar de zogenaamde Volte. De naam slaat op de gewelven van de ruimtes onder…
Orvieto was once a place of refuge for popes who, for whatever reason, were temporarily unwelcome in Rome. This is still visible in many places in the city. Pope Urbanus IV (1261-1264), for instance, resided in Orvieto for a while and a cardinal he created, Guillaume de Bray, was buried…
Op diverse plekken in Orvieto kunt u nog zien dat het goed verdedigbare Orvieto ooit een toevluchtsoord is geweest voor pausen die om wat voor reden dan ook even niet welkom waren in Rome. Paus Urbanus IV (1261-1264) verbleef langere tijd in de stad en de door hem gewijde kardinaal…
De Opera del Duomo was de instelling die in 1296 door de Florentijnse overheid werd opgericht voor het coördineren van de bouw van de nieuwe kathedraal, de Santa Maria del Fiore of Duomo. Binnen deze organisatie werkten architecten, kunstenaars en werklieden nauw samen. Vanaf 1400 opereerde de Opera vanaf haar…
Siena’s Duomo museum was founded in 1869. It is housed in the right aisle of the uncompleted new nave of the cathedral, built between 1339 and 1357. On display inside are some of the original sculptures that used to be on the cathedral facade, several interesting paintings and religious items.…
The Opera del Duomo was the institution that was founded by the Florentine government in 1296 to oversee the construction of the new cathedral, the Santa Maria del Fiore or Duomo. It was the organisation in which architects, artists and workers collaborated. The Opera has been at its present location…
No matter how many times I have seen it, Florence’s cathedral continues to impress me, and for many reasons. The Duomo is simply huge, with a length of some 153 metres and a nave width of 38 metres (90 metres at the crossing). It can accommodate at least 20.000 people.…
An old legend claims that Florence’s beautiful Baptistery of San Giovanni was originally a temple of Mars, the Roman god of war. The Roman emperor Augustus supposedly had it built to celebrate the subjugation of nearby Fiesole (Faesulae in those days) and the early Christians later converted it into a…