Before John and I were married, we took a trip to Italy with his parents. His sister, Katharine, who lives and works there, took us about to see the endless marvels.The fog was sticky, wet, and pervasive that winter, and the damp cold was banked and radiated from the bounty of stones.
The marvelous lavishly decorated cathedral of Siena, Duomo di Siena, now called Santa Maria Assunta. Built between 1215 and 1263, in Tuscan Romanesque style with elements of French Gothic and Classical architecture, it was mostly designed by Giovanni Pisano. The upper façades were completed between 1360 and 1370. Below, the marvelous fresh sculptures of Pisano, truly remarkable for their embodiment and expression of later Renaissance aesthetics.
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