Florence Baptistery
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The Florence Baptistery, also known as the Baptistery of Saint John, is a religious building in Florence, Italy. Dedicated to the patron saint of the city, John the Baptist, it has been a focus of rel
Baptistery, Florence
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The Baptistery from the northwest, with the scarsella, opposite the Cathedral and Giotto's Campanile.
Pantheon interior
Michelangelo
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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, known mononymously as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. He was born in the Republic of Florence b
Florence Baptistery
…relief sculptures. Andrea Pisano led the creation of the south doors, while Lorenzo Ghiberti led the workshops that sculpted the north and east doors. Michelangelo said the east doors were so beautiful that "they might fittingly stand at the gates of Paradise." The building also contains the first Renaissance…
Portrait by Daniele da Volterra, c. 1545
The Madonna of the Stairs (1490–1492), Michelangelo's earliest known work in marble
Pietà, St Peter's Basilica (1498–1499)
David, completed by Michelangelo in 1504, is one of the most renowned works of the Renaissance.