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Orvieto

The facade of the Cathedral Basilica of S. Maria Assunta, built from the XIII to the XVI century, is characterized by bas-reliefs which illustrate the history of Man from Creation to Judgment. Among the artists who worked there: Lorenzo Maitani, Nino and Andrea Pisano. In the upper part of the facade stands the Orcagna’s rose window. Inside, the Brizio Chapel, whose frescoes were painted by Beato Angelico, Benozzo Gozzoli and Luca Signorelli, and the Corporal Chapel painted in the mid-fourteenth century by Ugolino di Prete Ilario. MODO (Museo dell'Opera del Duomo di Orvieto) includes the rooms of the Papal Palaces with the gallery of frescoes, a collection of paintings and sculptures (Simone Martini, Ippolito Scalza, Cesare Nebbia and Arnolfo di Cambio), the room of the sinopias , the Albèri Library. The Claudio Faina Museum shows one of the major Italian archaeological collections with Greek, Roman and Etruscan finds. The ancient refectory of the Abbey of Santi Severo e Martirio preserves a fresco from the last quarter of the XIII century depicting the Crucifix with some saints.

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Orvieto, Badia (Abbey of St. Severo e Martirio), oratory of the Crucifix, which probably was an ancient and vast refectory:"Annunciation", fresco from the last quarter of the XIII century.

Orvieto, Badia (Abbey of St. Severo e Martirio), oratory o...

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Orvieto, Badia (Abbey of St. Severo e Martirio), oratory of the Crucifix, which probably was an ancient and vast refectory:"Annunciation", fresco from the last quarter of the XIII century.

Orvieto, Badia (Abbey of St. Severo e Martirio), oratory o...

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Orvieto, Badia (Abbey of St. Severo e Martirio), oratory of the Crucifix, which probably was an ancient and vast refectory:"St. Christopher", fresco from the last quarter of the XIII century.

Orvieto, Badia (Abbey of St. Severo e Martirio), oratory o...

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Orvieto, Badia (Abbey of St. Severo e Martirio), oratory of the Crucifix, which probably was an ancient and vast refectory: "Madonna enthroned with the Saints Augustine and Severus",fresco from the last quarter of the XIII century.

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Orvieto, Badia (Abbey of St. Severo e Martirio), oratory of the Crucifix, which probably was an ancient and vast refectory: fresco from the last quarter of the XIII century depicting the Crucifix with Saints Mary Magdalene, Augustine, Severus, John, Elisabeth, the Baptist and Martirio.

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Orvieto, Badia (Abbey of St. Severo and Martirio): view of the chapter house, whose ogival arch surrounds the cliff of Orvieto and the spiers of the Duomo, and of the octagonal bell tower.

Orvieto, Badia (Abbey of St. Severo and Martirio): view of...

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Orvieto, Museum Faina: earthenware urn.

Orvieto, Museum Faina: earthenware urn.

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Orvieto, Museum Faina: Canopic urn (first half of the VI century B.C. from the Chiusi area.

Orvieto, Museum Faina: Canopic urn (first half of the VI ce...

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Orvieto, Museum Faina: Head of Heracles.

Orvieto, Museum Faina: Head of Heracles.

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Orvieto, Museum Faina: Head of Old Man (end V century B.C)

Orvieto, Museum Faina: Head of Old Man (end V century B.C)

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Orvieto, Museum Faina: Gorgoneion.

Orvieto, Museum Faina: Gorgoneion.

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Orvieto, Museum Faina: antefix of the sacred area of Cannicella.

Orvieto, Museum Faina: antefix of the sacred area of Cannic...

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Orvieto, Museum Faina: Cippo in the shape of a warrior's head found in the Orvieto necropolis of Crocifisso del Tufo, 520 - 530 BC.

Orvieto, Museum Faina: Cippo in the shape of a warrior's he...

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Orvieto, Museum Faina: Venus of Cannicella, Etruscan marble statue found in the sanctuary of the site of Cannicella, 520 - 530 BC.

Orvieto, Museum Faina: Venus of Cannicella, Etruscan marble...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of S. Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the façade: one of the four bronze statues representing the Evangelists, made by Lorenzo Maitani in 1329 - 1330: the angel, symbol of St. Matthew.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of S. Maria Assunta (or Duomo),...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of S. Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the façade: one of the four bronze statues representing the Evangelists, made by Lorenzo Maitani in 1329 - 1330: the eagle, symbol of St. John.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of S. Maria Assunta (or Duomo),...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of S. Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the façade: one of the four bronze statues representing the Evangelists, made by Lorenzo Maitani in 1329 - 1330: the lion, symbol of St. Mark.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of S. Maria Assunta (or Duomo),...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of S. Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the façade: one of the four bronze statues representing the Evangelists, made by Lorenzo Maitani in 1329 - 1330: the bull, symbol of St Luke.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of S. Maria Assunta (or Duomo),...

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Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto): “Madonna with Child and six angels holding a curtain” (taken from the central lunette of the facade of the Cathedral of Orvieto), by an Umbrian-Siena sculptor and Maestro Sottile (Lorenzo Maitani?). The Madonna was made in the first decade of the fourteenth century, the angels in 1325. Marble, bronze, polychromy, gold and glass paste.

Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto...

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Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto): “Madonna with Child and six angels holding a curtain” (taken from the central lunette of the facade of the Cathedral of Orvieto), by an Umbrian-Siena sculptor and Maestro Sottile (Lorenzo Maitani?). The Madonna was made in the first decade of the fourteenth century, the angels in 1325. Marble, bronze, polychromy, gold and glass paste.

Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto...

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“The monkey with glasses that reads”. Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto): Alberi Library, a cycle of monochrome frescoes where famous classical masters of different subjects are represented (law, medicine, astronomy, grammar), attributed to Luca Signorelli's pupils, 1501-1503: detail of the most famous and most curious drawing of the monkey with glasses that opens a book where the phrase "Legere et non intelligere est negligere" appears (Reading and not understanding is equivalent to not reading). A moral maxim of an anonymous author dated approximately around the third century and become very famous in schools, especially for students of Latin grammar.

“The monkey with glasses that reads”. Orvieto, MODO (Museum...

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Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto), Alberi Library: the Reliquary of the Corporal, a masterpiece of goldsmithing made around 1330 in gold, silver and translucent enamel by Ugolino di Vieri to contain the main relic of a famous miracle which took place in 1263 in Bolsena. Detail of the Cricifixion and the Deposition.

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Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto), Alberi Library: the Reliquary of the Corporal, a masterpiece of goldsmithing made around 1330 in gold, silver and translucent enamel by Ugolino di Vieri to contain the main relic of a famous miracle which took place in 1263 in Bolsena. Detail.

Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto...

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Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto), Alberi Library: the Reliquary of the Corporal, a masterpiece of goldsmithing made around 1330 in gold, silver and translucent enamel by Ugolino di Vieri to contain the main relic of a famous miracle which took place in 1263 in Bolsena.

Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto...

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“Portraits of Abu Maʿshar (Albumasar) and Ptolemy”. Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto): Alberi Library, a cycle of monochrome frescoes where famous classical masters of different subjects are represented (law, medicine, astronomy, grammar), attributed to Luca Signorelli's pupils, 1501-1503.

“Portraits of Abu Maʿshar (Albumasar) and Ptolemy”. Orvieto...

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“Portrait of Abu Maʿshar (Albumasar)”. Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto): Alberi Library, a cycle of monochrome frescoes where famous classical masters of different subjects are represented (law, medicine, astronomy, grammar), attributed to Luca Signorelli's pupils, 1501-1503.

“Portrait of Abu Maʿshar (Albumasar)”. Orvieto, MODO (Museu...

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“Portrait of Ptolemy”. Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto): Alberi Library, a cycle of monochrome frescoes where famous classical masters of different subjects are represented (law, medicine, astronomy, grammar), attributed to Luca Signorelli's pupils, 1501-1503.

“Portrait of Ptolemy”. Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera o...

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“Portrait of Virgil”. Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto): Alberi Library, a cycle of monochrome frescoes where famous classical masters of different subjects are represented (law, medicine, astronomy, grammar), attributed to Luca Signorelli's pupils, 1501-1503.

“Portrait of Virgil”. Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of...

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“Portrait of Homer”. Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto): Alberi Library, a cycle of monochrome frescoes where famous classical masters of different subjects are represented (law, medicine, astronomy, grammar), attributed to Luca Signorelli's pupils, 1501-1503.

“Portrait of Homer”. Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of...

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“Portrait of Ovid”. Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto): Alberi Library, a cycle of monochrome frescoes where famous classical masters of different subjects are represented (law, medicine, astronomy, grammar), attributed to Luca Signorelli's pupils, 1501-1503.

“Portrait of Ovid”. Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of t...

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“Portrait of Ovid”. Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto): Alberi Library, a cycle of monochrome frescoes where famous classical masters of different subjects are represented (law, medicine, astronomy, grammar), attributed to Luca Signorelli's pupils, 1501-1503.

“Portrait of Ovid”. Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of t...

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“Portraits of Ovid and Juvenal”.Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto): Alberi Library, a cycle of monochrome frescoes where famous classical masters of different subjects are represented (law, medicine, astronomy, grammar), attributed to Luca Signorelli's pupils, 1501-1503.

“Portraits of Ovid and Juvenal”.Orvieto, MODO (Museum of th...

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“Portraits of Homer and Virgil”.Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto): Alberi Library, a cycle of monochrome frescoes where famous classical masters of different subjects are represented (law, medicine, astronomy, grammar), attributed to Luca Signorelli's pupils, 1501-1503.

“Portraits of Homer and Virgil”.Orvieto, MODO (Museum of th...

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Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto): Portrait of Luca Signorelli and the chamberlain Niccolò d'Agnolo Franchi, by Luca Signorelli, 1503, tempera on terracotta.

Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto...

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Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto): S. Magdalene, by Luca Signorelli, 1501, tempera on panel, from the Chapel of the Magdalene in the Duomo.

Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto...

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Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto): The Virgin with the Child flanked by St. Magdalene, St. Dominic, St. Peter and St. Paul, tempera, gold and silver leaf on panel, by Simone Martini, 1320-1. Detail of St. Paul.

Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto...

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Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto): The Virgin with the Child flanked by St. Magdalene, St. Dominic, St. Peter and St. Paul, tempera, gold and silver leaf on panel, by Simone Martini, 1320-1. Detail of the Virgin and the child.

Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto...

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Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto): The Virgin with the Child flanked by St. Magdalene, St. Dominic, St. Peter and St. Paul, tempera, gold and silver leaf on panel, by Simone Martini, 1320-1. Detail of St. Peter.

Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto...

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Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto): The Virgin with the Child flanked by St. Magdalene, St. Dominic, St. Peter and St. Paul, tempera, gold and silver leaf on panel, by Simone Martini, 1320-1. Detail of St. Dominic.

Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto...

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Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto): The Virgin with the Child flanked by St. Magdalene, St. Dominic, St. Peter and St. Paul, tempera, gold and silver leaf on panel, by Simone Martini, 1320-1. Detail of St. Magdalene.

Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto...

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Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto): The Virgin with the Child flanked by St. Magdalene, St. Dominic, St. Peter and St. Paul, tempera, gold and silver leaf on panel, by Simone Martini, 1320-1.

Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto...

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Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto): Jesus Crucified between the Madonna, Magdalene and St. John the Evangelist, tempera and gold on panel, by Spinello Aretino, last decade of the fourteenth century.

Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto...

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Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto): St. Ambrose, mosaic with glass and stone tesserae, from the facade of the Cathedral adjacent to the rose, by Piero di Puccio, 1388.

Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto...

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Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto): St. Jerome, mosaic with glass and stone tesserae, from the facade of the Cathedral adjacent to the rose, by Piero di Puccio, 1388.

Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto...

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Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto): Annunciation, wooden sculpture from the choir of the Duomo, by Terzo Maestro d'Orvieto, wood statues with traces of polychromy, first twenty years of the fifteenth century.

Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto...

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Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto): Annunciation, wooden sculpture from the choir of the Duomo, by Terzo Maestro d'Orvieto, wood statues with traces of polychromy, first twenty years of the fifteenth century. Detail of the Virgin.

Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto...

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Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto): Annunciation, wooden sculpture from the choir of the Duomo, by Terzo Maestro d'Orvieto, wood statues with traces of polychromy, first twenty years of the fifteenth century. Detail of the archangel Gabriel.

Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto...

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Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto): Lectern and fragments of the choir, by Siena masters, 1330 - 70, carved and inlaid wood.

Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto...

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Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto): Lectern and fragments of the choir, by Siena masters, 1330 - 70, carved and inlaid wood.

Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto...

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Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto): Lectern and fragments of the choir, by Siena masters, 1330 - 70, carved and inlaid wood.

Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto...

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Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto): Lectern and fragments of the choir, by Siena masters, 1330 - 70, carved and inlaid wood.

Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto...

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Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto): Lectern and fragments of the choir, by Siena masters, 1330 - 70, carved and inlaid wood.

Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto...

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Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto): Lectern and fragments of the choir, by Siena masters, 1330 - 70, carved and inlaid wood.

Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto...

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Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto): Lectern and fragments of the choir, by Siena masters, 1330 - 70, carved and inlaid wood.

Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto...

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Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto): Madonna with Child, By NIno and Andrew Pisano, 1346-7, marble, taken from the Cathedral.

Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto...

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Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto): Madonna with Child, By NIno and Andrew Pisano, 1346-7, marble, taken from the Cathedral.

Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto...

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Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto): Blessing Christ sitting on the throne, by an Orvieto master, around 1330, pear wood and polychromy.

Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto...

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Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto): Eucharistic Christ and two angels, from the Duomo, by Nino and Tommaso Pisano, 1347-8, marble.

Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto...

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Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto), central part of a polyptych: Madonna with Child and angels, by Simone Martini, tempera, gold and silver leaf on panel, 1322 - 4.

Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto...

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Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto), central part of a polyptych: Madonna with Child and angels, by Simone Martini, tempera, gold and silver leaf on panel, 1322 - 4.

Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto...

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Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto): Madonna and Child with Saints Agnes, Peter, Paul and Lucia, by Lippo Vanni, tempera and gold on panel, mid-14th century.

Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto...

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Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto): “St Michael and the Dragon”, a bronze sculpture taken from the façade of the Cathedral of Orvieto, realized during the works led by Lorenzo Maitani in the first half of the fourteenth century.

Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto...

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Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto): “Madonna with Child and six angels holding a curtain” (taken from the central lunette of the facade of the Cathedral of Orvieto), by an Umbrian-Siena sculptor and Maestro Sottile (Lorenzo Maitani?). The Madonna was made in the first decade of the fourteenth century, the angels in 1325. Marble, bronze, polychromy, gold and glass paste.

Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto...

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Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto): “Madonna with Child and six angels holding a curtain” (taken from the central lunette of the facade of the Cathedral of Orvieto), by an Umbrian-Siena sculptor and Maestro Sottile (Lorenzo Maitani?). The Madonna was made in the first decade of the fourteenth century, the angels in 1325. Marble, bronze, polychromy, gold and glass paste.

Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto...

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Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto): “Madonna with Child and six angels holding a curtain” (taken from the central lunette of the facade of the Cathedral of Orvieto), by an Umbrian-Siena sculptor and Maestro Sottile (Lorenzo Maitani?). The Madonna was made in the first decade of the fourteenth century, the angels in 1325. Marble, bronze, polychromy, gold and glass paste.

Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto...

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Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto): “Madonna with Child and six angels holding a curtain” (taken from the central lunette of the facade of the Cathedral of Orvieto), by an Umbrian-Siena sculptor and Maestro Sottile (Lorenzo Maitani?). The Madonna was made in the first decade of the fourteenth century, the angels in 1325. Marble, bronze, polychromy, gold and glass paste.

Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto...

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Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto): “Madonna with Child and six angels holding a curtain” (taken from the central lunette of the facade of the Cathedral of Orvieto), by an Umbrian-Siena sculptor and Maestro Sottile (Lorenzo Maitani?). The Madonna was made in the first decade of the fourteenth century, the angels in 1325. Marble, bronze, polychromy, gold and glass paste.

Orvieto, MODO (Museum of the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of S. Maria Assunta (or Duomo): the façade, whose building started at the end of the XIII century. The tricuspid design was by Lorenzo Maitani and executed by Maitani himself with the help of Pisa and Siena craftsmen (1320 -30). The execution was continued by Andrea Pisano (1347) and by Orcagna (1359) to whom we owe the rose window.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of S. Maria Assunta (or Duomo):...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of S. Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the façade, the central lunette: copy of the Madonna with Child and six angels holding a curtain , by an Umbrian-Siena sculptor and "Maestro Sottile" (Lorenzo Maitani?). The Madonna was made in the first decade of the fourteenth century, the angels in 1325. Marble, bronze, polychrome, gold and glass paste.

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of S. Maria Assunta (or Duomo): the façade, whose building started at the end of the XIII century. Representation of the Last Judgment in scenes divided by vine branches: Christ the judge among angels, prophets, apostles, Mary, the Baptist, the instruments of passion and the angels who call the dead at the judgment; The Chosen led to heavenly bliss; The division of the elected from the reprobate; The Resurrection of the dead and the expulsion of the reprobate in Hell.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of S. Maria Assunta (or Duomo):...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of S. Maria Assunta (or Duomo): the façade, whose building started at the end of the XIII century. Representation of the evangelical stories among acanthus spirits: Annunciation and Visitation; Nativity and Epiphany; Presentation at the temple and Flight into Egypt; Massacre of the Innocents and Dispute in the temple; Baptism and Miracle of Jesus; Entry into Jerusalem and the Kiss of Judas; Flagellation and Crucifixion; Mary at the Sepulchre and Noli me tangere. Below: Adam (or Abraham or Jacob) sleeping. Along the midline: prophets. On the sides: adoring angels.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of S. Maria Assunta (or Duomo):...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of S. Maria Assunta (or Duomo): the façade, whose building started at the end of the XIII century. Detail of the covering of the four pillars of the doors. These are marble slabs with bas-reliefs executed between 1320 and 1330 by Lorenzo Maitani with the help of Sienese and Pisan craftsmenSubject: continuation of biblical scenes with Messianic prophecies. The following themes develop between the acanthus spirals: Adam or Abraham asleep; King David, King Solomon, Roboamo, Abia, Asa, Giosafat; Mary and Christ. On the sides the prophets with their tables. The scenes represent: Balaam; the vocation of Joshua; the Miracle of Gideon; David anointed king; Presentation of Samuel to Elijah; The children of Israel in Egypt; the bread and wine prepared by Melchisedech for Abraham; Crucifixion.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of S. Maria Assunta (or Duomo):...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of S. Maria Assunta (or Duomo): the façade, whose building started at the end of the XIII century. Detail of the covering of the four pillars of the doors. These are marble slabs with bas-reliefs executed between 1320 and 1330 by Lorenzo Maitani with the help of Sienese and Pisan craftsmenSubject: biblical scenes from creation to Jubal: six series of bas-reliefs of an ivy plant whose branches divide the main scenes. In the first pillar, therefore, the Stories of Genesis are contemplated: Creation of fish, birds, plants; Creation of mammals; Creation of man in the presence of two angels; God gives life to Adam and extracts the rib to create Eve; Adam and Eve brought into Eden, the original Sin, the condemnation; Expusion from Eden; Adam hoes and Eve lines up; Offers of Cain and Abel; Cain kills Abel; Noemi teaches a child to read; Juval invents sounds; one of Adam's sons with a compass.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of S. Maria Assunta (or Duomo):...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, the Chapel of the Corporale: frescoes by Ugolino di Prete Ilario and others. (1357-64). Detail.Consistently with the destination of the Chapel, the iconographic program of the cycle has as its object not only the episodes of the Bolsena Mass, but in general the mystery of Transubstantiation. In fact, in addition to the miracle of Bolsena, several other prodigies are depicted - mostly they are episodes taken from exempla developed with a didactic purpose - which would demonstrate the real presence of the body of Christ in the consecrated Particola. Complete the decoration scenes of the Passion of Christ and in particular the representation of the Last Supper, precisely the institution of the Eucharist.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, the Chapel of the Corporale: frescoes by Ugolino di Prete Ilario and others. (1357-64). Detail.Consistently with the destination of the Chapel, the iconographic program of the cycle has as its object not only the episodes of the Bolsena Mass, but in general the mystery of Transubstantiation. In fact, in addition to the miracle of Bolsena, several other prodigies are depicted - mostly they are episodes taken from exempla developed with a didactic purpose - which would demonstrate the real presence of the body of Christ in the consecrated Particola. Complete the decoration scenes of the Passion of Christ and in particular the representation of the Last Supper, precisely the institution of the Eucharist.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, the Chapel of the Corporale: frescoes by Ugolino di Prete Ilario and others. (1357-64). Detail.Consistently with the destination of the Chapel, the iconographic program of the cycle has as its object not only the episodes of the Bolsena Mass, but in general the mystery of Transubstantiation. In fact, in addition to the miracle of Bolsena, several other prodigies are depicted - mostly they are episodes taken from exempla developed with a didactic purpose - which would demonstrate the real presence of the body of Christ in the consecrated Particola. Complete the decoration scenes of the Passion of Christ and in particular the representation of the Last Supper, precisely the institution of the Eucharist.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, the Chapel of the Corporale: frescoes by Ugolino di Prete Ilario and others. (1357-64). Detail representing Christ, a knight and a demon. Consistently with the destination of the Chapel, the iconographic program of the cycle has as its object not only the episodes of the Bolsena Mass, but in general the mystery of Transubstantiation. In fact, in addition to the miracle of Bolsena, several other prodigies are depicted - mostly they are episodes taken from exempla developed with a didactic purpose - which would demonstrate the real presence of the body of Christ in the consecrated Particola. Complete the decoration scenes of the Passion of Christ and in particular the representation of the Last Supper, precisely the institution of the Eucharist.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, the Chapel of the Corporale: frescoes by Ugolino di Prete Ilario and others. (1357-64). Detail.Consistently with the destination of the Chapel, the iconographic program of the cycle has as its object not only the episodes of the Bolsena Mass, but in general the mystery of Transubstantiation. In fact, in addition to the miracle of Bolsena, several other prodigies are depicted - mostly they are episodes taken from exempla developed with a didactic purpose - which would demonstrate the real presence of the body of Christ in the consecrated Particola. Complete the decoration scenes of the Passion of Christ and in particular the representation of the Last Supper, precisely the institution of the Eucharist.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, the Chapel of the Corporale: frescoes by Ugolino di Prete Ilario and others. (1357-64). Detail.Consistently with the destination of the Chapel, the iconographic program of the cycle has as its object not only the episodes of the Bolsena Mass, but in general the mystery of Transubstantiation. In fact, in addition to the miracle of Bolsena, several other prodigies are depicted - mostly they are episodes taken from exempla developed with a didactic purpose - which would demonstrate the real presence of the body of Christ in the consecrated Particola. Complete the decoration scenes of the Passion of Christ and in particular the representation of the Last Supper, precisely the institution of the Eucharist.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, the Chapel of the Corporale:"Madonna Of Raccomandati", by Lippo Memmi, 1320.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, the Chapel of the Corporale:stained glass window representing a Crucifixion by Cesare Picchiarini on a drawing by Duilio Cambellotti.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior: the Chapel of the Corporale with the marble tabernacle designed by Niccolò da Siena (1385) and then continued under the direction of the Orcagna. The frescoes are by Ugolino di Prete Ilario and others. (1357-64).

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior: the Chapel of the Corporale with the marble tabernacle designed by Niccolò da Siena (1385) and then continued under the direction of the Orcagna. The frescoes are by Ugolino di Prete Ilario and others. (1357-64).

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior: the Chapel of the Corporale with the marble tabernacle designed by Niccolò da Siena (1385) and then continued under the direction of the Orcagna. The frescoes are by Ugolino di Prete Ilario and others. (1357-64).

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, presbitery: organ.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel of the Magi: rich marble altar sculpted by Michele Sanmicheli, Giovanni Battista da Siena and Simone Mosca. The Epiphany scene is by Raffaello da Montelupo; the three haunting angels above and other bas-reliefs are by his son Francesco.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or Chapel of St. Brizio, the vault: "Madonna of St. Brizio".

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or St. Brizio Chapel, the lower part of the walls, series of illustrious men where each figure is surrounded by monochrome rounds whose function is to identify the character through the representation of episodes from his works: "Tibullus".

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or St. Brizio Chapel, the lower part of the walls, series of illustrious men where each figure is surrounded by monochrome rounds whose function is to identify the character through the representation of episodes from his works: "Tibullus".

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto:

Orvieto:

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or St. Brizio Chapel, the lower part of the walls, series of illustrious men where each figure is surrounded by monochrome rounds whose function is to identify the character through the representation of episodes from his works: "Ovid".

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or St. Brizio Chapel, the lower part of the walls, series of illustrious men where each figure is surrounded by monochrome rounds whose function is to identify the character through the representation of episodes from his works: "Ovid".

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or St. Brizio Chapel, the lower part of the walls, series of illustrious men where each figure is surrounded by monochrome rounds whose function is to identify the character through the representation of episodes from his works: "Dante reading his works ".

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or St. Brizio Chapel, the lower part of the walls, series of illustrious men where each figure is surrounded by monochrome rounds whose function is to identify the character through the representation of episodes from his works: "Dante reading his works ".

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or Chapel of St. Brizio, Chapel of the Holy Bodies: "Lamentation of the Dead Christ" between the two saints of Orvieto (S. Parenzo on the right and S. Faustino on the left), by Luca Signorelli, 1500 - 1504. Detail.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or Chapel of St. Brizio, Chapel of the Holy Bodies: "Lamentation of the Dead Christ" between the two saints of Orvieto (S. Parenzo on the right and S. Faustino on the left), by Luca Signorelli, 1500 - 1504. Detail.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or Chapel of St. Brizio, Chapel of the Holy Bodies: "Lamentation of the Dead Christ" between the two saints of Orvieto (S. Parenzo on the right and S. Faustino on the left), by Luca Signorelli, 1500 - 1504. Detail.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or Chapel of St. Brizio, Chapel of the Holy Bodies: "Lamentation of the Dead Christ" between the two saints of Orvieto (S. Parenzo on the right and S. Faustino on the left), by Luca Signorelli, 1500 - 1504.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or Chapel of St. Brizio, Chapel of the Holy Bodies: "Lamentation of the Dead Christ" between the two saints of Orvieto (S. Parenzo on the right and S. Faustino on the left), by Luca Signorelli, 1500 - 1504.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or Chapel of St. Brizio, Chapel of the Holy Bodies: "Lamentation of the Dead Christ" between the two saints of Orvieto (S. Parenzo on the right and S. Faustino on the left), by Luca Signorelli, 1500 - 1504.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or St. Brizio Chapel, lunette of the west wall: "Preaching and the facts of the Antichrist", fresco by Luca Signorelli, (1500 - 1502). The men dressed in black on the left hand side of the wall are the portratis of Luca Signorelli and Beato Angelico. Detail.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or St. Brizio Chapel, lunette of the west wall: "Preaching and the facts of the Antichrist", fresco by Luca Signorelli, (1500 - 1502). Detail.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or St. Brizio Chapel, lunette of the west wall: "Preaching and the facts of the Antichrist", fresco by Luca Signorelli, (1500 - 1502). Detail.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or St. Brizio Chapel, lunette of the west wall: "Preaching and the facts of the Antichrist", fresco by Luca Signorelli, (1500 - 1502). The men dressed in black on the left hand side of the wall are the portratis of Luca Signorelli and Beato Angelico.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or St. Brizio Chapel, southern wall: "Call to Hell", fresco by Luca Signorelli, (1500 - 1502). Detail showing the Antehell, taken from Dante's description. A group of slothers has a demon bearing a white banner, while in the centre you can see Charon ready to ferry the damned, destined, lower down, to the judgment of Minos. The latter is portrayed when he commits punishment to a damned man by a demon's hair, wrapping his tail around his body as many times as the number of the group he is destined for. Further on, on the "proscenium", a devil with blue flesh makes to hit a damned man by holding his hair: the crudeness of the scene interested Michelangelo, who in fact copied it.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or St. Brizio Chapel, southern wall: "Call to Hell", fresco by Luca Signorelli, (1500 - 1502). Detail showing the Antehell, taken from Dante's description. A group of slothers has a demon bearing a white banner, while in the centre you can see Charon ready to ferry the damned, destined, lower down, to the judgment of Minos. The latter is portrayed when he commits punishment to a damned man by a demon's hair, wrapping his tail around his body as many times as the number of the group he is destined for. Further on, on the "proscenium", a devil with blue flesh makes to hit a damned man by holding his hair: the crudeness of the scene interested Michelangelo, who in fact copied it.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or St. Brizio Chapel, the lunette of the east wall: "Damned to hell", fresco by Luca Signorelli, (1500 - 1502). Detail.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or St. Brizio Chapel, the lunette of the east wall: "Damned to hell", fresco by Luca Signorelli, (1500 - 1502). Detail with devils and damned.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or St. Brizio Chapel, the lunette of the east wall: "Damned to hell", fresco by Luca Signorelli, (1500 - 1502). Detail of a shapely woman raised against her will by a blue demon with a horn in his forehead: it is a self-portrait by Signorelli, evidently alluding to a "private" story with the blonde woman, who perhaps was unfaithful to him.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or St. Brizio Chapel, the lunette of the east wall: "Damned to hell", fresco by Luca Signorelli, (1500 - 1502). Detail of the flying demon that carries a prosperous sinner on his shoulders and looks back towards her grinning, evidently satisfied with the prey.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or St. Brizio Chapel, the lunette of the east wall: "Damned to hell", fresco by Luca Signorelli, (1500 - 1502). Detail with devils and damned.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or St. Brizio Chapel, the lunette of the east wall: "Damned to hell", fresco by Luca Signorelli, (1500 - 1502).

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or St. Brizio Chapel, lunette of the east wall: "Resurrection of the flesh", fresco by Luca Signorelli, (1500 - 1502). Detail.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or St. Brizio Chapel, lunette of the east wall: "Resurrection of the flesh", fresco by Luca Signorelli, (1500 - 1502). Detail.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or St. Brizio Chapel, lunette of the east wall: "Resurrection of the flesh", fresco by Luca Signorelli, (1500 - 1502). Detail.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or St. Brizio Chapel, lunette of the east wall: "Resurrection of the flesh", fresco by Luca Signorelli, (1500 - 1502). Detail.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or St. Brizio Chapel, lunette of the east wall: "Resurrection of the flesh", fresco by Luca Signorelli, (1500 - 1502).

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or St. Brizio Chapel, the lunette of the east wall: "The Blessed in Heaven", fresco by Luca Signorelli, (1500 - 1502).

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or Chapel of St. Brizio, the vault: the rib vault with The Martyrs, by Luca Signorelli 1500 - 1504.

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or Chapel of St. Brizio, the vault: the rib vault with The Doctors of the Church, by Luca Signorelli 1500 - 1504.

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or Chapel of St. Brizio, the vault: the rib vault with The patriarchs, by Luca Signorelli 1500 - 1504.

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or Chapel of St. Brizio, the vault: the rib vault with Chorus of the Chaste Virgins, by Luca Signorelli 1500 - 1504.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or Chapel of St. Brizio, the vault: the rib vault with Chorus of the Chaste Virgins, by Luca Signorelli 1500 - 1504.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or Chapel of St. Brizio, the vault: the rib vault with Chorus of the Chaste Virgins, by Luca Signorelli 1500 - 1504.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or Chapel of St. Brizio, the vault: the rib vault with The Prophets, fresco by Beato Angelico with some additions (borders and heads) by Benozzo Gozzoli, 1447-9.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or Chapel of St. Brizio, the vault: the rib vault with The Choir of the Apostles, by Luca Signorelli 1500 - 1504.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or Chapel of St. Brizio, the vault: the rib vault with Christ the judge and angels, fresco by Beato Angelico with some additions (borders and heads) by Benozzo Gozzoli, 1447-9.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or St. Brizio Chapel, the vault: frescoes by Beato Angelico (1447 -9) and Luca Signorelli (1500 - 1502).

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or St. Brizio Chapel, northern wall: "Pandemonium" fresco by Luca Signorelli, (1500 - 1502). Detail. On the left the supernatural events begin, while in the distance wars and murders multiply. It deals with the arrival of monstrous winged demons, from whose hands and mouths a fiery rain is emitted that invests a multitude of terrified people, who is pouring on the stalls outside the border of the painted arch. Particularly effective and well preserved is the tangle of seven young men in the foreground, with flashy clothes, dead or in the act of succumbing, followed by two mothers with their children and a group of young and old.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or St. Brizio Chapel, northern wall: "Pandemonium" fresco by Luca Signorelli, (1500 - 1502). Detail. On the left the supernatural events begin, while in the distance wars and murders multiply. It deals with the arrival of monstrous winged demons, from whose hands and mouths a fiery rain is emitted that invests a multitude of terrified people, who is pouring on the stalls outside the border of the painted arch. Particularly effective and well preserved is the tangle of seven young men in the foreground, with flashy clothes, dead or in the act of succumbing, followed by two mothers with their children and a group of young and old.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or St. Brizio Chapel, northern wall: "Pandemonium" fresco by Luca Signorelli, (1500 - 1502). Detail. On the left the supernatural events begin, while in the distance wars and murders multiply. It deals with the arrival of monstrous winged demons, from whose hands and mouths a fiery rain is emitted that invests a multitude of terrified people, who is pouring on the stalls outside the border of the painted arch. Particularly effective and well preserved is the tangle of seven young men in the foreground, with flashy clothes, dead or in the act of succumbing, followed by two mothers with their children and a group of young and old.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or St. Brizio Chapel, northern wall: "Pandemonium" fresco by Luca Signorelli, (1500 - 1502). Detail. In the lower right corner, in the foreground, the Eritrean Sibyl reads her prophetic book together with the prophet David, noting the truth of the predictions at the advent of the Dies Irae. Behind them an earthquake causes a temple to collapse and the brigands triumph in anarchy, stripping three young men. More in the distance, a biblical tsunami arrives to lift the ships on the waves, which are about to threaten the city; in the sky the sun and the moon are ominously darkened.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel Nova or St. Brizio Chapel, the lunette of the east wall: "Damned to hell", fresco by Luca Signorelli, (1500 - 1502). Detail of the flying demon that carries a prosperous sinner on his shoulders and looks back towards her grinning, evidently satisfied with the prey.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, Chapel of the Magi: rich marble altar sculpted by Michele Sanmicheli, Giovanni Battista da Siena and Simone Mosca. The Epiphany scene is by Raffaello da Montelupo; the three haunting angels above and other bas-reliefs are by his son Francesco.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior, apse area: the window made by Giovanni di Bonino in 1328-1334. The forty-four panels of the Gothic window depict the life of Mary and Christ with the bust of the blessing Redeemer surrounded by the symbols of the Evangelists and surmounted by the mystic Cherub. The single episodes of the stories, painted on a blue background within architectural schemes, are interspersed with the figures of the Prophets, represented with landscape notations on a red background.

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior: statue of St. Sebastian, beginning XV century.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior: The Lamentation (or Deposition), a marble group created in the second half of the 16th century by the Orvieto architect and sculptor Ippolito Scalza. The Pietà, carved from a single block of marble, is composed of four figures: Christ, lying on the lap of the Virgin Mary, Nicodemus with his face bent towards the figure of Jesus, while with one hand he holds the ladder and the hammer and in the other he holds the pincers (elements that recall the Crucifixion), and finally, the kneeling Magdalene with the face resting on the hand of Christ.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior: " Enthroned Madonna with Child and angels", By Gentile da Fabriano, 1425, fresco.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo), the interior: " Enthroned Madonna with Child and angels", By Gentile da Fabriano, 1425, fresco.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...

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Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duomo): the interior (XIII - XIV century). In the foreground, the holy water font by Camillo Cardinali.

Orvieto, Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (or Duo...