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The story of Siena and San Gimignano (1902)

Gardner, Edmund Garratt, 1869-1935 · London : J.M. Dent & co. · leaf 219

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inding stairsleads up to the verytop of it, with a superbview of Siena and thecountry round. Under the Duomo tothe east is the Baptistery,San Giovanni di Siena,a construction of theSTEPS BESIDE THE BAPTISTERY same epoch as the Cathedral itself. Thefagade was begun in 1317, modified in 1382 fromthe… … The Baptistery administration of Confirmation; they were laid downin the middle of the fifteenth century, the one in thecentre (the Baptism) being designed and executed byAntonio Federighi. The interior has been completelyrestored. The Baptismal Font, which includes a taber-nacle for preserving the…

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