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

[picture: 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...]

[picture: 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...]

[picture: 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...]

[picture: 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...]

[picture: 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.

[picture: 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...]

[picture: caption]

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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...]

[picture: 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...]

[picture: Fresco fragment 1]

Fresco fragment 1

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

[picture: Fresco fragment 2]

Fresco fragment 2

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

[picture: Fresco fragment 3]

Fresco fragment 3

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

[picture: Inscription dated 1890]

Inscription dated 1890

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FRANCESCO CARRARA [more...]


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