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Portion of facade of Palazzo Monaldeschi at the end of Via Beato Angelico. The Palazzo Monaldeschi, known also as Palazzo Sforza Monaldeschi della Cervara or as Palazzo Marsciano or Meoni or, is a Renaissance architecture, aristocratic palace located on Piazza Ippolito Scalza in the historic center of Orvieto in the Region of Umbria, Italy.
Fracassini also frescoed the three muses in the proscenium. The sipario (theater curtain) was painted by Fracassini, depicting the expulsion by Belisarius of the Goths from Orvieto in 538. [1] Closed for some years, in 1993 a restoration of the interior was completed and the theater is the venue for drama, opera, dance and other spectacles. [2]
Facade of the Orvieto Cathedral. The Pozzo di San Patrizio, a well built for the popes. The site of Orvieto was once an Etruscan acropolis. Orvieto (Italian: [orˈvjɛːto]) is a city and comune in the Province of Terni, southwestern Umbria, Italy, situated on the flat summit of a large butte of volcanic tuff.
Coronation of the Virgin mosaic on the top gable of the cathedral Rose window Marble Pieta, Madonna Mourning the Crucified Jesus with St. Nicodemus. Orvieto Cathedral (Italian: Duomo di Orvieto; Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta) is a large 14th-century Roman Catholic cathedral dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and situated in the town of Orvieto in Umbria, central Italy.
The intersection of Corso Cavour and Via del Duomo divides Orvieto into four quarters (rione): Serancia, San Giovenale, Postierla, and Santa Pace. The street runnin north along the flank of the Tower leads to the Palazzo del Capitano del Popolo; south to the Duomo. In 1875, the clock was added to the tower, as well as two bells.
The Pozzo di San Patrizio (English: "Well of St. Patrick") is a historic well in Orvieto, Umbria, central Italy. The city is high on the flat summit of a large butte of volcanic tuff that was fortified with defensive walls.
The Palazzo Conte Bracci, also called Bracci Testasecca is an aristocratic palace located on Piazza del Popolo in the historic center of Orvieto in the Region of Umbria, Italy. It stands directly across from the Gothic architecture Palazzo del Capitano del Popolo , and separated by the alleyway of Via del Costituente from the deconsecrated ...
"La rosa es una rosa es una rosa" is used in Fernando del Paso's Sonetos con lugares comunes. A song by Poe (Anne Danielewski), "A rose is a rose", states "a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose said my good friend Gertrude Stein." The computer game Carmen Sandiego features a villain humorously named Rosa Zarrosas-Arroz.