The Camposanto Monumentale cemetary in Pisa (page 27/32)

Rectangular sarcophagus with fluting.

Rectangular sarcophagus with fluting.

rectangular sarcophagus with fluting. at the center inscribed board (mid 3rd century a.d.). on the right flank two oval shields with spear. reused in the 14th century for the heirs of bandino dal ponte. gable top with acrotera and pisan cross in a circle. [more...]

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Declaiming lady with weeping angel

Declaiming lady with weeping angel

A monumental sculpture, a tombstone with an effigy of the deceased, the dead person honoured and remembered, an with an angel, female, winged, robed and barefoot, at her feet. [more...]

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Dead chick

Dead chick

A monumental sculpture of a woman is bathed in sunlight in an otherwise dark hall; the stone tracery of the cloister window casts shadows on the wall behind her. [more...]

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Stone monuments

Stone monuments

A wide-angle shot showing some of the sculptures in the Camposanto Monumentale cemetary; they are statues of people who have died, and are probably 18th or 19th century. [more...]

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Statue of Leonardo Fibonacci 8

Statue of Leonardo Fibonacci 8

Another shot of this statue of Fibonacci, holding a book in one hand and with his other hand outstretched, and with the remains of the ancient fresco on the wall behind him. [more...]

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Dead guy in the wall

Dead guy in the wall

A niche holds an effigy of the deceased, robed but with one shoulder and both feet bare.

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Mourn not for the dead; mourn for the living

Mourn not for the dead; mourn for the living

This sculpted woman is a monument to death; it is a portrait of one had passed away. She wears I think a tiara, so was quite possible a princess or queen. She has her hands on her lap. The pattern on the wall behind her, which bears the remains of a [...] [more...]

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rectangular sarcophagus with fluting and head of christ on a bust from the end of 33d century a.d. in a medallion. at the extremities dancing satyrs. on the flanks winged pegasus (end of 3rd century a.d.). reused for beato demonico vernagalli (+1218). flat slab top with protruding edge. [more...]

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rectangular sarcophagus with fluting and head of christ

rectangular sarcophagus with fluting and head of christ

rectangular sarcophagus with fluting and head of christ on a bust from the end of 33d century a.d. in a medallion. at the extremities dancing satyrs. on the flanks winged pegasus (end of 3rd century a.d.). reused for beato demonico vernagalli (+1218). flat slab top with protruding edge. [more...]

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Fresco fragment 1

Fresco fragment 1

A fragment from the medieval frescos that adorned the walls of the Camposanto Monumentale, but were badly damaged in the Second World War.

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Fresco fragment 2

Fresco fragment 2

A fragment from the medieval frescos that adorned the walls of the Camposanto Monumentale, but were badly damaged in the Second World War.

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Fresco fragment 3

Fresco fragment 3

A fragment from the medieval frescos that adorned the walls of the Camposanto Monumentale, but were badly damaged in the Second World War.

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