Siena Cathedral
Siena Cathedral
Siena Cathedral represents one of the most important examples of Italian Gothic architecture. The particular story of its construction, started in the last decades of XII and finished in XIV, underlines the rivalry between Siena and Florence in a dramatic way. The faced is the most original part of the building, most of all in the lower part, an Roman-Gothic work by Giovanni Pisano. Also other two splendid masterpieces of Nicola Pisano are to be considered, the Majesty of the Duke...
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Siena Cathedral
Siena Cathedral represents one of the most important examples of Italian Gothic architecture. The particular story of its construction, started in the last decades of XII and finished in XIV, underlines the rivalry between Siena and Florence in a dramatic way. The faced is the most original part of the building, most of all in the lower part, an Roman-Gothic work by Giovanni Pisano. Also other two splendid masterpieces of Nicola Pisano are to be considered, the Majesty of the Dukedom and the ambitious project of the New Duomo by Lorenzo Maitani.
Duration: 30 minutes, Audio: Italian, English, Subtitles: Italian, Genre: documentary.