Example sentences for: arnolfo

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  • The very heart of the city’s centro storico, it was begun in 1296 under Arnolfo di Cambio, although the imposing green, white, and rose marble neo-Gothic façade was completed only six centuries later.

  • In the left transept is a magnificent octagonal 13th-century pulpit carved by Nicola Pisano, with help from son Giovanni and Arnolfo di Cambio.

  • In the Oratory of the Crib (Oratorio del Presepio) are the moving 13th-century sculptures of Joseph, the Three Kings, the ox, and the ass, by Arnolfo di Cambio (Mary and the child Jesus are 16th-century additions).

  • In gentle contrast to the austere Italian Gothic exterior of the Palazzo Vecchio by Arnolfo di Cambio (architect of the Duomo), Vasari added ornate stucco and frescoes to the first inner courtyard for a Medici wedding in the 1560s (the palazzo served briefly as a Medici residence until they moved across the river to the Palazzo Pitti).

  • Designed in the late 13th century by Arnolfo di Cambio (architect of the Palazzo Vecchio and the Duomo) but with a neo-Gothic façade added in 1863, the Franciscan church of Santa Croce (east of the Uffizi) has an important series of Giotto frescoes.


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