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Example sentences for: baptistery
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A building boom underlined the prosperity: Giotto’s Campanile was at last completed, as were Ghiberti’s great baptistery doors, and Brunelleschi’s dome on the cathedral.
The lovely 13th-century pink Verona marble baptistery has superbly sculpted doors by Benedetto Antelami, who also carved most of the 12 statues of the months in the interior.
At the end of the right nave is the fifth-century domed baptistery, one of the oldest buildings known in Christian Europe with some original mosaics still intact.
You can also see the two bronze panels submitted for the Baptistery doors competition in 1401 by Brunelleschi, the loser, and Ghiberti, the winner (see page 77).
Pisa sided with the Normans in Sicily and profits from its new commercial empire in the western Mediterranean paid for its magnificent cathedral, baptistery, and campanile (today’s Leaning Tower).