Museo Nazionale di Palazzo Mansi

Luca (Italia) / Italia

The Museo Nazionale di Palazzo Mansi is one of the two main art museum hosting tapestry collections and mainly post-19th century art collections owned by the city of Lucca, Italy. The collection is displayed in the Baroque palace, formerly belonging to the Mansi family, and located in central Lucca. Many of the original room decorations remain in place.The Palace was first erected at the site of a few earlier tower-houses bought in 1616 by the Lucchese merchant of silk Ascanio Mansi and his descendants. While the facade retains earlier Renaissance window features, between 1686 and 1691, Ascanio's son Raffaello employed the architect Raffaello Mazzanti to further renovate the now palace, and the piano nobile rooms acquired the present decoration and a grand staircase access. The cooler ground floor rooms were turned into a summer apartment. In the second half of the 18th century, Luigi Mansi pursued further refurbishing. The Mansi family retained prestige in the early 19th century; Raffaele Mansi and Camilla Parensi had been appointed courtiers to Elisa Bonaparte and Felice Baciocchi. Raffaello Mansi Orsetti, who died in 1956, was the first to display the art collections to the public. In the mid-1960s his children sold the palace to the state, which has converted into a National Museum of arts and tapestries. The interiors house a highly decorated bedroom alcove with gilded caryatid columns flanking the portal.

Biblioteca statale di Lucca

Luca (Italia) / Italia

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Catedral de San Martín (Lucca)

Luca (Italia) / Italia

La catedral de San Martín ? es un templo católico de la ciudad italiana de Lucca, sede arzobispal. La catedral está dedicada a san Martín de Tours, se halla frente a la Plaza San Martín. Según la tradición, el primer templo fue edificado por San Frediano, santo originario de Luca muerto en 588. El obispo Anselmo mandó construir la catedral en 1063, quien la consagró en presencia de la condesa Matilde de Canossa. A finales del siglo XII se inició la tercera y definitiva reconstrucción de la iglesia, con la realización de la fachada, alternándose las obras hasta su finalización en 1637. La iglesia adquirió su forma actual con el arquitecto Antonio Pardini. El templo posee un rico interior con numerosas obras de arte como un relieve con la Deposizione de Nicola Pisano, del siglo XIII, el monumento fúnebre Da Noceto e Bertini realizado por Matteo Civitali del siglo XV, la Madonna con Bambino e Santi de Domenico Ghirlandaio, también del siglo XV, la Última Cena de Tintoretto, y el Monumento funerario de Ilaria del Carretto obra maestra de Jacopo della Quercia. Sin embargo, el objeto más importante de la catedral es el antiguo crucifijo de la Santa Faz .

National Museum of Villa Guinigi

Luca (Italia) / Italia

The Museo Nazionale di Villa Guinigi is the main art museum hosting the pre-modern art collections owned by the city of Lucca, Italy. The museum is located in a refurbished villa on Via della Quarquonia, completed in 1418 for Paolo Guinigi, ruler of Lucca until 1430. After his death, the building was confiscated by the republic, and it has served various purposes over the years. Only in 1924 was it selected to house the art collection, which until then was housed in the Palazzo Pubblico. In 1948 it was donated to the Italian state, which carried out a more organized preservation campaign and at the same time rearranged the collection, subsequently distributing it between this villa and the Palazzo Mansi. The late-Gothic building was constructed from 1413 to 1418 as a Villa di Delizia. It has an imposing brick façade with central ground-floor portico. Once elaborately decorated by Guinigi, it now houses collections of mainly the ancient, medieval, renaissance, baroque, and neoclassic periods.

Basílica de San Frediano

Luca (Italia) / Italia

la Basílica de San Frediano es una de las iglesias católicas más antiguas de Lucca, su estilo es románico, y se encuentra ubicada frente a la plaza homónima. Desde allí parte la procesión por la celebración de la fiesta de la Santa Cruz la noche del 13 de septiembre.[1]​[2]​ En noviembre de 1957, el Papa Pío XII la elevó a la dignidad de una basílica menor

Ducal Palace, Lucca

Luca (Italia) / Italia

The Ducal Palace is a palace in Lucca, Tuscany, central Italy.

Iglesia de San Miguel en Foro

Luca (Italia) / Italia

La Iglesia de San Miguel en Foro es una iglesia católica de la ciudad de Lucca, Toscana, Italia central, construida sobre el antiguo foro romano. Se encuentra en la plaza de San Miguel , sobreelevada rodeada por columnas de mármol conectadas por cadenas de metal y está flanqueada por una hilera de edificios medievales. En esta plaza se encuentra también una estatua en honor de Francisco Burlamacchi.