The Camposanto Monumentale cemetary in Pisa (page 27/32)

Declaiming lady with weeping angel

A monumental sculpture, a tombstone with an effigy of the deceased, the dead person honoured and remembered, an with an angel, female, winged, robed and barefoot, at her feet. [more...]

Dead chick

A monumental sculpture of a woman is bathed in sunlight in an otherwise dark hall; the stone tracery of the cloister window casts shadows on the wall behind her. [more...]

Stone monuments

A wide-angle shot showing some of the sculptures in the Camposanto Monumentale cemetary; they are statues of people who have died, and are probably 18th or 19th century. [more...]

Statue of Leonardo Fibonacci 8

Another shot of this statue of Fibonacci, holding a book in one hand and with his other hand outstretched, and with the remains of the ancient fresco on the wall behind him. [more...]

Dead guy in the wall

A niche holds an effigy of the deceased, robed but with one shoulder and both feet bare.

Mourn not for the dead; mourn for the living

This sculpted woman is a monument to death; it is a portrait of one had passed away. She wears I think [more...]

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rectangular sarcophagus with fluting and head of christ on a bust from the end of 3^3d century a.d. in a medallion. at the extremities dancing satyrs. on the flanks winged pegasus (end of 3^rd century a.d.). reused for beato demonico vernagalli (+1218). flat slab top with protruding edge. [more...]

rectangular sarcophagus with fluting and head of christ

rectangular sarcophagus with fluting and head of christ on a bust from the end of 3^3d century a.d. in a medallion. at the extremities dancing satyrs. on the flanks winged pegasus (end of 3^rd century a.d.). reused for beato demonico vernagalli (+1218). flat slab top with protruding edge. [more...]

Fresco fragment 1

A fragment from the medieval frescoes that adorned the walls of the Camposanto Monumentale, but were badly damaged in the Second World War.

Fresco fragment 2

A fragment from the medieval frescoes that adorned the walls of the Camposanto Monumentale, but were badly damaged in the Second World War.

Fresco fragment 3

A fragment from the medieval frescoes that adorned the walls of the Camposanto Monumentale, but were badly damaged in the Second World War.

Inscription dated 1890

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FRANCESCO CARRARA [more...]