Example sentences for: frescoes

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  • In sharp contrast, the Ghirlandaio frescoes in its tiny Santa Fina Chapel (at the end of the right aisle) are a series of sophisticated social portraits (1475) dedicated to the young patron saint of San Gimignano.

  • It’s a ten minute walk to the Palladian-inspired Villa Valmarana, notable for the Tiepolo frescoes that grace its interior.

  • 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.

  • On the second floor, the Sala dei Gigli (Hall of the Lilies) is brilliantly decorated in blues and golds with Florentine heraldry and vivid Ghirlandaio frescoes of Roman and early Christian history.

  • Through a separate entrance left of the church, escape the bustle of the piazza in the Dominicans’ 14th-century cloister (Chiostro Verde), with Paolo Uccello’s frescoes of the Universal Deluge.


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