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Medieval church in Tuscany, Italy
Church in Tuscany, Italy
Siena Cathedral
Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption
Duomo di Siena(Italian)
Cattedrale Metropolitana di Santa Maria Assunta(Italian)
Archdiocese of Siena-Colle di Val d'Elsa-Montalcino
Clergy
Archbishop
Antonio Buoncristiani
Provost
Roberto Pialli
Archdeacon
Giovanni Soldani
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Official name
Historic Centre of Siena
Type
Cultural
Criteria
i, ii, iv
Designated
1995 (19th session)
Reference no.
717
Region
Europe and North America
Siena Cathedral (Italian: Duomo di Siena) is a medieval church in Siena, Italy, dedicated from its earliest days as a Roman Catholic Marian church, and now dedicated to the Assumption of Mary.
It was the episcopal seat of the Diocese of Siena, and from the 15th century that of the Archdiocese of Siena. It is now the seat of the Archdiocese of Siena-Colle di Val d'Elsa-Montalcino.
The cathedral was designed and completed between 1215 and 1263 on the site of an earlier structure. It has the form of a Latin cross with a slightly projecting transept, a dome and a bell tower. The dome rises from a hexagonal base with supporting columns. The dome was completed in 1264. The lantern atop the dome was added by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The bell tower has six bells, where the oldest one was cast in 1149. The nave is separated from the two aisles by semicircular arches. The exterior and interior are constructed of white and greenish-black marble in alternating stripes, with the addition of red marble on the façade. Black and white are the symbolic colors of Siena, etiologically linked to black and white horses of the legendary city's founders, Senius and Aschius. There are thirty-five statues of prophets and patriarchs grouped around the virgin. The finest Italian artists of that era completed works in the cathedral. These artists were Nicola and Giovanni Pisano, Donatello, Pinturicchio, Lorenzo Ghiberti, and Bernini.
SienaCathedral (Italian: Duomo di Siena) is a medieval church in Siena, Italy, dedicated from its earliest days as a Roman Catholic Marian church, and...
Siena (/siˈɛnə/ see-EN-ə, Italian: [ˈsjɛːna, ˈsjeːna] ; Latin: Sena Iulia) is a city in Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the province of Siena. Siena...
The SienaCathedral Pulpit is an octagonal structure in SienaCathedral sculpted by Nicola Pisano and his assistants Arnolfo di Cambio, Lapo di Ricevuto...
as the son of "Petrus de Apulia", as stated in the archives of the Cathedral of Siena.[citation needed] Nicola Pisano was probably trained in the local...
Roman art. Henry Moore, referring to his statues for the facade of SienaCathedral, called him "the first modern sculptor". Born in Pisa, Giovanni Pisano...
splendor: new buildings were commissioned, including that of the Cathedral of Siena, the Palazzo Pubblico, and a substantial part of the city walls completed...
Giovanni Pisano in 1284–1320. Facade of SienaCathedral (1215–1263) Altar and polychrome marble pillars of SienaCathedral Church of Santa Maria della Spina...
basilica (built 1228–1253) SienaCathedral Pulpit, by Nicola Pisano Perugia's Fontana Maggiore, by Pisano Guido da Siena's "Flight into Egypt" Trecento...
countryside. In the city of Siena, the term indicates the 17 urban wards, whose representatives race on horseback in the Palio di Siena, run twice every year...
historically, many pulpits include a built in lectern, for example SienaCathedral Pulpit (Nicola Pisano, 1268). Churches that have both a lectern and...
best known including those of the baptistery at Pisa (dated 1260), SienaCathedral Pulpit (1268) also by Nicola Pisano, and by his son Giovanni Pisano...
Tuscan Gothic style of the SienaCathedral by Giovanni Pisano (1287–1297) and the plan for façade of the Florence Cathedral by Arnolfo di Cambio (1294–1302)...
best known including those of the Pisa Baptistery (dated 1260) and SienaCathedral Pulpit by Nicola Pisano and the Pulpit of Sant' Andrea, Pistoia, by...
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Florence (1982); the Cathedral square of Pisa (1987); the historical centre of San Gimignano (1990); the historical centre of Siena (1995); the historical...
of Orvieto Cathedral , the façade of SienaCathedral and the bell tower of Florence Cathedral . begun by Giotto in 1334. Milan Cathedral was the Italian...
Pisa Baptistery by Giovanni's father Nicola Pisano (1260), in the SienaCathedral Pulpit, and in Giovanni's pulpit of Sant' Andrea, Pistoia; but this...
commissions for the city, of which only one reached Siena. Firstly there were bronze doors for the cathedral, of which only a possible trial cast of one panel...
other Sienese artists, is documented as part of a project to paint in SienaCathedral. He is first recorded as a master in 1428, in a list of the painters'...
Renaissance, when it was in the Piccolomini Library, is now displayed in SienaCathedral. The Charites are depicted together with several other mythological...
1194 and 1220 SienaCathedral is a cathedral in Siena, Italy, that was completed between 1215 and 1263 Cologne Cathedral is a cathedral in Cologne, Germany...
Orthodox Christian monastery in Cetinje, Montenegro, and the Catholic Cathedral of Siena, in Italy, both claim to have John the Baptist's right arm and hand...
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ritual to ensure that future popes were male. In the 16th century, SienaCathedral featured a bust of Joan among other pontiffs; this was removed after...
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