The Camposanto Monumentale cemetary in Pisa (page 3/32)

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Rectangular sarcophagus with in the center bust of the deceased in a clipeus (end of 2nd century a.d.) among nereids, marine centaurs and winged genii. [more...]

Cemetery Coister Windows 1

Inside the cemetery building is a cloister, and these are the stone arches of the glassless windows, with their delicate tracery, that overlook the grass in the quadrangle. [more...]

Cemetery Cloister Windows 2

Inside the cemetery building is a cloister, and these are the stone arches of the glassless windows, with their delicate tracery, that overlook the grass in the quadrangle. [more...]

Cemetery building interior

A long view showing the cloister windows at left, the floor that is almost entirely paved with tombstones, the sarcophagi against the sides, and the upper walls still with traces of [more...]

Beasts from 3rd Century

A detail from the Lions and Fluting for Piero sarcophagus showing the lion about to devour its prey.

Lions and Fluting for Piero

Tub-shaped sarcophagus with fluting. At the extremeties male figure with lions clutching their prey (mid 3rd century a.d.). Reused in mid 14th century for Piero del Fornaio. [more...]

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Rectangular sarcophagus decorated with a courting of marine gods (second half of 2nd century a.d.). Gable top with an inscription and the blazon of Michele da Scorno (end of 15th century). [more...]

Marine gods cocktail party

Rectangular sarcophagus decorated with a courting of marine gods (second half of 2nd century a.d.). Gable top with an inscription and the blazon of Michele da Scorno (end of 15th century). [more...]

Sarcophagus from 2nd Century C.E. 1: front view

Rectangular sarcophagus with nereids and tritons, hippocampus and genius (second half of 2nd century a.d.). Gable top with inscriptions for Michele Saccieri, operaio dell’opera di santa maria (✢ 1341). [more...]

Sarcophagus from 2nd Century C.E. 2: detaill

Showing a detail of the carving: a naked young man is about to thrust upwards with a knife, I think, a far more violent scene than I’d like on my coffin. [more...]

sarcophagus from 3rd century C.E. 1: front view

Rectangular sarcophagus (end of 3rd century a.d.) with undulating fluting and clipeus with busts of married couple. At the extremeties Bacchus and Mercurius. [...] [more...]

sarcophagus from 3rd century C.E. 2: detail

Showinf the married couple, who appear to be holding a machine gun, although since it’s a late Roman carving some 1700 years old or more, I doubt that. [more...]