Duomo

The Duomo: The gothic cathedral in Piazza Duomo is one of the largest in the world and a sight to behold.

The Comfort of Strangers Leah Chernikoff 2010

On the steps of the Duomo were the clergy in brocade, a mitred bishop half smothered under his cope in their midst.

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The most beautiful and the most interesting work of art in the Duomo is the Madonna, carved in ivory in 1300 by Giovanni Pisano, in the sacristy.

Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922

The Duomo is a basilica with nave and double aisles [55], with a transept flanked with aisles, covered by a dome over the crossing.

Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922

Guidetto seems to have built here at S. Michele as a sort of trial for the Duomo, which is already less like an apparition.

Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922

Facing the Duomo is the baptistery, which at first served as a church, a sort of octagonal temple surmounted by a cupola, built, doubtless, after the model of the

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The front of the Duomo is a small pyramidal screen, covered with delicate carvings and chasings, distributed over a series of short columns upholding narrow arches.

Italian Hours Henry James 1879

The Duomo, which is perhaps the ugliest duomo in the world, contains an "Annunciation," by Titian, one of his best paintings; and in the Monte di Pietà is the grand and beautiful "Entombment," by which Giorgione is perhaps most worthily remembered.

Italian Journeys William Dean Howells 1878

Perugia's Madonna delle Grazie in the Duomo is a larger-than-life, clearly pregnant young woman, painted in 1515 by one of Perugia's Renaissance greats.

CNN.com 2011

The interior of the Duomo is a fine specimen of Gothic: the exterior is Greek, Gothic, and Saracenic jumbled together in vile taste: it contains nothing very interesting.

The Diary of an Ennuyée 1827