Word: duomo
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...most prominent feature in every picture. Near this is the Uffizzi palace with its famous picture gallery. Here are many art treasures, including the Venus di Medici, found in the villa of Hadrian at Rome, the statue of Niobe, and numerous others. The great glory of Florence is the Duomo, or cathedral, built of black and white marble, with a tower, said to be the handsomest in the world. The baptistry of this church contains a number of famous bronze doors, one pair of which occupied the artist for twenty years...
Views of many other churches and statues were also shown, giving altogether a most clear and satisfactory idea of the city. Pisa is situated on the Arno nearer the sea. The city is noted for a group of buildings surrounding the Duomo, or cathedral, which dates from the eleventh century. In this church is the identical lamp from whose movements Galileo deduced the laws of the pendulum. The baptistry is a very handsome building, but the chief interest centers in the well known "Leaning Tower," from whose summit Galileo made his experiments on falling bodies. The attitude of this tower...