Art Gallery in Florence

Since 1822, Galleria Pietro Bazzanti holds high the traditional artisan techniques of sculpture in bronze, marble and semi-precious stones. Still today, the gallery is a hub for culture, for meetings for artists and aficionados of sculpture. On the Arno, in the heart of Florence.

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THE DOOR OF THE MONTECASSINO ABBEY

THE DOOR OF THE MONTECASSINO ABBEY Desiderio, descendant of a princely family from Benevento, became abbot in 1058 [Photo 1]. The Cassino monk Leone Marsicano in the “Chronica monasterii Casinensis” wrote that around 1065 the abbot Desiderio, while he was architecturally renovating the monastic complex of Montecassino (the reconstruction took 5 years) was struck by [...]

THE DOOR OF AMALFI CATHEDRAL

THE DOOR OF AMALFI CATHEDRALBronze doors in Italy made in Constantinople Of the ten bronze doors made in Constantinople and sent to Italy, only eight remain in their original locations: in the Amalfi Cathedral, in the Abbey of Montecassino, in San Paolo fuori delle Mura in Rome, in San Michele Arcangelo on Monte Sant'Angelo, in [...]

The Bronze Door of Bohemond’s Mausoleum in Canosa di Puglia

The Bronze Door of Bohemond's Mausoleum in Canosa di PugliaBohemond of Hauteville, Duke of Antioch Anna Comnena (1083-1153), daughter of Alexius I Comnenus, Emperor of Byzantium (1048-1118), in the “Alexeide”, the biography of her father Alexius I written by her, describes the Norman Bohemond of Hauteville (1051-1111), in those years her father's enemy, but by [...]