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| San Pietro in Montorio 2 Piazza San Pietro in Montorio, Rome, 00153 |  |
The great architect adopted a central plan for this building, making clear references to Christian martyrdom and pagan temples dedicated to heroic mythological figures. Doric columns were used to conjure up images of anc... more
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| San Pietro in Vincoli 4a Piazza di San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome, 00184 |  |
The vincoli, or chains, may have given the church its name, but today it’s best known for Michelangelo’s Moses. This amazing work of art captures Moses, armed with the Ten Commandments, just at the moment he makes re... more
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| San Pietro Incarnario Piazzetta S. Pietro Incarnario, 3, Verona, 37121 | |
This church gets its name from the ancient Roman "carnarium", literally the abattoir or charnel house and cemetery, upon which it was built in 955. The remains of the old building...
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| San Polo Campo San Polo, Venice, 30123 |  |
This is the age of Venice's colonial expansion when splendid churches were erected as well as nobles' monumental palaces along the Grand Canal (Pisani Moretta, Barbarigo della Terrazza, Grimani of San Polo, etc.).
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| San Salvatore al Monte Via Monte alle Croci, Florence, 50125 | |
The building appears extremely simple. It has a plaster facade which is only animated by tympan windows and by portals. The everyday construction was the work of Cronaca who...
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| San Sebastiano Campo San Sebastiano, Venice, 30122 | |
Alberti's churches in Mantua, designed for Marquis Ludovico Gonzaga, are reinterpretations of ecclesiastical architecture in antique terms. San Sebastiano is a Greek-cross votive church raised over a high crypt packed wi... more
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| San Simpliciano 7 Piazza San Simpliciano, Milan, 20121 | |
In the IXth century the Cluniacensian Benedictines took over the Church which became famous in 1176 due to the victory of the Milanese at Legnano against Barbarossa. During the 1176 campaign, precisely on the 29th May, t... more
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| San Spiridione Via San Spiridione, 1, Trieste, 34121 | |
The Orthodox Serb community has been present in Trieste for many years, and has become well-integrated into the city's social structure. The San Spiridione Church was built over an already existing structure which dated ... more
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| San Stae Campo San Stae, Venice, 30135 |  |
Venice was nearly a second home to Sargent who had known the city from his early youth. In the 1880s, his somber-toned Venetian paintings focused on local life seen through doorways and along the narrow streets far remov... more
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| San Stefano Vicolo scaletta S. Stefano, 2, Verona, 37121 | |
San Stefano Rotondo is the only extant early Christian Church with a completely circular plan. Built to house the relics of St. Stephen, its form followed in the tradition of the ancient Roman mausoleums. Two concentric ... more
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