Piccolomini LIbrary Siena Italy is a photograph by Joan Carroll which was uploaded on June 10th, 2017.
Piccolomini LIbrary Siena Italy
A treasure within a treasure, that is how the Piccolomini Library with the cathedral in Siena, Italy has been described. You’ve first been wowed by... more
by Joan Carroll
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Piccolomini LIbrary Siena Italy
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Joan Carroll
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Photograph - Photography And Digital Art
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A treasure within a treasure, that is how the Piccolomini Library with the cathedral in Siena, Italy has been described. You’ve first been wowed by the facade of the cathedral, then by the forest of striped marble columns and the coffered dome of the nave within. If you saved the best for last, as I did, you finally enter the Piccolomini Library off to one side of the nave. Its brilliantly frescoed walls and ceiling are highlighted by the bright window light. As you walk around the room, the never-restored frescoes relate the story of the life of Siena's favorite son, cardinal Enea Silvio Piccolomini (1405-1464), who eventually became Pope Pius II. They were painted between 1502 and 1507, with striking detail and bright color. The scenes depict ten remarkable events from the secular and religious career of pope Pius II, as ambassador to European courts, paying homage to the new Emperor and then to the ailing Pope, becoming a bishop, a cardinal and ultimately pope. Pius II was the uncle of cardinal Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini (the future pope Pius III), who commissioned this library in 1492 as a repository of the books and the manuscript collection of his uncle.
Check my blog entry about this visit here: https://fineartamerica.com/blogs/frescoes-of-the-piccolomini-library.html
FEATURED PHOTO, Lady Photographers And Artists group, 6/16/17
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