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Paradoxplace Italy Photo Pages
Lucca
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The Duomo
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The Upper Facade sports two "knotted marble columns"
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A Poitou Romanesque moment - a horse and rider occupy a central spandrel slot on the cathedral's facade - here it is the French Saint St Martin of Tours doing his cloak splitting act. The Telemon figures are pure Romanesque - beast faces off against (or mates with) beast, tails entwined, and man embraces devil (?).
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The facade incorporates 12 "labours of the month" bas relief panels with accompanying Zodiac signs. The months read from right to left - starting with foot warming in January on the right of the photo above, and finishing with preparing a pig for Christmas Dinner on the left of the photo below. We'll blow up some of the individual panels on another page.
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The Basilica of San Michele - Archangelo Michele kills a dragon above a facade with 4 more knotted marble columns.
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Giacomo Puccini (Dec 1858 - Nov 1924 (65)) - famous son of Lucca and composer of La Boheme (1896), Tosca (1900), Madam Butterfly (1904), Turandot (not performed till after his death - 1926) et al, said that his favourite instrument was his shot gun - very country Tuscan!
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