Camposanto Monumentale Pisa Italy
???? “The Campo Santo, also known as Camposanto Monumentale (monumental cemetery) or Camposanto Vecchio (old cemetery), is a historical edifice at the northern edge of the Cathedral Square in Pisa, Italy.
Campo Santo can be literally translated as holy field, because it is said to have been built around a shipload of sacred soil from Golgotha, brought back to Pisa from the Third Crusade by Ubaldo Lanfranchi, archbishop of Pisa in the 12th century. A legend claims that bodies buried in that ground will rot in just 24 hours. The burial ground lies over the ruins of the old baptistery of the church of Santa Reparata, the church that once stood where the cathedral now stands.
The term monumental serves to differentiate it from the later-established urban cemetery in Pisa.
The building was the fourth and last one to be raised in the Cathedral Square. It dates from a century after the bringing of the soil from Golgotha, and was erected over the earlier burial ground.
The construction of this huge, oblong Gothic cloister was begun in 1278 by the architect Giovanni di Simone. He died in 1284 when Pisa suffered a defeat in the naval battle of Meloria against the Genoans. The cemetery was only completed in 1464.
It seems that the building was not meant to be a real cemetery, but a church called Santissima Trinità (Most Holy Trinity), but the project changed during the construction. However we know that the original part was the western one (and this should be, at least for a while, the mentioned church), and all the eastern part was the last to be built, finally closing the structure.”
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Pisa - Il Camposanto Monumentale
« Il Campo Santo di Pisa: il solo camposanto che sia al mondo, tutti gli altri son cimiteri. »
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Il Campo Santo, noto anche come Camposanto monumentale o Camposanto vecchio, è un cimitero storico monumentale di Pisa, che chiude il lato nord di piazza del Duomo.
La dizione più diffusa del nome è Camposanto, spesso affiancato ad aggettivi come monumentale o vecchio. Tale dizione ha origine comunque, come è facilmente intuibile, da Campo Santo, nome tradizionale del luogo, sin da quando, secondo la tradizione, l'arcivescovo Ubaldo Lanfranchi di ritorno dalla Terra Santa ne riempì l'interno con terra portata dal Monte Calvario.
Nel Camposanto venivano sepolte le maggiori personalità cittadine, come i rettori e i più prestigiosi docenti dell'Università di Pisa, i governanti e le famiglie più in vista, spesso riutilizzando sarcofagi di epoca romana di grandissimo pregio, e contemporaneamente, dal XVI secolo, iniziando anche un processo di musealizzazione con l'apposizione di iscrizioni romane sulle pareti e altri preziose testimonianze della storia cittadina.
Questo pantheon pisano divenne così per vocazione naturale il primo museo della città quando nell'Ottocento vi furono raccolte opere d'arte provenienti dagli istituti religiosi soppressi per le riforme napoleoniche, impedendo così il disperdersi del patrimonio cittadino altrove, oltre ad altri oggetti di natura artistica o archeologica appositamente acquistati. Nello stesso periodo la funzione cimiteriale ebbe un picco, con i numerosissimi sepolcri ottocenteschi, spesso di ottima fattura, che iniziarono ad affollare i corridoi, da allora ribattezzati gallerie.
Questa commistione tra antico e moderno, tra celebrazione della storia e riflessione sulla morte, fu alla base del fascino malinconico che esercitò sui viaggiatori dell'epoca romantica, facendo sì che il Camposanto diventasse uno dei monumenti più amati e visitati d'Italia, con personaggi che da tutta Europa venivano per ammirarlo e studiarlo. Non a caso in questo periodo i suoi affreschi sono resi popolari da numerosi disegni, schizzi e stampe d'epoca, che ne diffondono la bellezza nel mondo.
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Pisa, Italy: The Baptistery and the Camposanto Monumentale
Although the Cathedral and the Leaning Tower are the most famous sights in the Piazza dei Miracoli in Pisa, the Battistery and the monumental cementery (Camposanto) are as much as interesting.
The baptistery is a gothic circular building, which took almost 250 years to build. In the inside there is a famous pulpit by Nicola Pisano.
The camposanto is a gothic building from the 13th century. It is built around a big cloister, with many ancient tombstones in the gallerys surrounding it. There are many frescoes in the cementery, the most famous the Triumph of Death, from the 14th century. Many frescoes were badly damaged in the World War II, and now are being restored and reinserted in the walls.
Camposanto Monumentale Pisa Italy - Cemetery in Pisa, Italy
In this episode of The Cemetery Detective, Keith visits Camposanto Monumentale in Pisa, Italy. This covered marble cemetery is the burial place of Leonardo Fibonacci.
I have been fascinated with the Fibonacci Sequence since I first heard about it in middle school. I was thrilled to visit Fibonacci's burial place in Pisa.
Camposanto Monumentale, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy, Europe
The Campo Santo, also known as Camposanto Monumentale (monumental cemetery) or Camposanto Vecchio (old cemetery), is a historical edifice at the northern edge of the Cathedral Square in Pisa, Italy. Campo Santo can be literally translated as holy field, because it is said to have been built around a shipload of sacred soil from Golgotha, brought back to Pisa from the Fourth Crusade by Ubaldo de' Lanfranchi, archbishop of Pisa in the 12th century. A legend claims that bodies buried in that ground will rot in just 24 hours. The burial ground lies over the ruins of the old baptistery of the church of Santa Reparata, the church that once stood where the cathedral now stands. The term monumental serves to differentiate it from the later-established urban cemetery in Pisa. The building was the fourth and last one to be raised in the Cathedral Square. It dates from a century after the bringing of the soil from Golgotha, and was erected over the earlier burial ground. The construction of this huge, oblong Gothic cloister was begun in 1278 by the architect Giovanni di Simone. He died in 1284 when Pisa suffered a defeat in the naval battle of Meloria against the Genoans. The cemetery was only completed in 1464. It seems that the building was not meant to be a real cemetery, but a church called Santissima Trinità (Most Holy Trinity), but the project changed during the construction. However we know that the original part was the western one (and this should be, at least for a while, the mentioned church), and all the eastern part was the last to be built, finally closing the structure. The outer wall is composed of 43 blind arches. There are two doorways. The one on the right is crowned by a gracious Gothic tabernacle. It contains the Virgin Mary with Child, surrounded by four saints. It is the work from the second half of the 14th century by a follower of Giovanni Pisano. This was the original entrance door. Most of the tombs are under the arcades, although a few are on the central lawn. The inner court is surrounded by elaborate round arches with slender mullions and plurilobed tracery. The cemetery has three chapels. The oldest ones are the chapel Ammannati (1360) and takes its name from the tomb of Ligo Ammannati, a teacher in the University of Pisa; and the chapel Aulla, were there is an altar made by Giovanni della Robbia in 1518. In the Aulla chapel we can see also the original incense lamp that Galileo Galilei used for calculation of pendular movements. This lamp is the one Galileo saw inside the cathedral, now replaced by a larger more elaborate one. The last chapel was Dal Pozzo, commissioned by archbishop of Pisa Carlo Antonio Dal Pozzo in 1594; it has an altar dedicated to St. Jerome and a little dome. In this chapel in 2009 were translated the relics of the Cathedral: the relics include among the others eleven of the twelve Apostles, two fragments of the True Cross, a thorn from the Crown of Thorns of Christ and a small piece of the dress of the Virgin Mary. Also in the Dal Pozzo chapel sometimes a Mass is celebrated. The Campo Santo contained a huge collection of Roman sarcophagi, but there are only 84 left together with a collection of Roman and Etruscan sculptures and urns, now in the Museum of the vestry board.
The sarcophagi were initially all around the cathedral, often attached to the building itself. That until the cemetery was built, then they were collected in the middle all over the meadow. Carlo Lasinio, in the years he was the curator of the Campo Santo, collected many other ancient relics that were spread in Pisa to make a sort of archeological museum inside the cemetery. Nowadays the sarcophagi are inside the galleries, near the walls. The walls were once covered in frescoes; the first were applied in 1360, the last about three centuries later. The first was the Crucifixion by Francesco Traini, in the south western side. Then, continuing to right, in the southern side, the Last Judgement, The Hell, The Triumph of Death and the Anacoreti nella Tebaide, usually attributed to Buonamico Buffalmacco. The cycle of frescoes continues with the Stories of the Old Testament by Benozzo Gozzoli (15th century) that were situated in the north gallery, while in the south arcade were the Stories of Pisan Saints, by Andrea Bonaiuti, Antonio Veneziano and Spinello Aretino (between 1377 and 1391), and the Stories of Job, by Taddeo Gaddi (end of 14th century). In the same time, in the north gallery were the Stories of the Genesis by Piero di Puccio.
On 27 July 1944, a bomb fragment from an Allied raid started a fire. Due to all the water tanks being controlled, the fire could not be put out in time, and it burnt the wooden rafters and melted the lead of the roof.
Camposanto Monumentale, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy, Europe
The Campo Santo, also known as Camposanto Monumentale (monumental cemetery) or Camposanto Vecchio (old cemetery), is a historical edifice at the northern edge of the Cathedral Square in Pisa, Italy. Campo Santo can be literally translated as holy field, because it is said to have been built around a shipload of sacred soil from Golgotha, brought back to Pisa from the Fourth Crusade by Ubaldo de' Lanfranchi, archbishop of Pisa in the 12th century. A legend claims that bodies buried in that ground will rot in just 24 hours. The burial ground lies over the ruins of the old baptistery of the church of Santa Reparata, the church that once stood where the cathedral now stands. The term monumental serves to differentiate it from the later-established urban cemetery in Pisa. The building was the fourth and last one to be raised in the Cathedral Square. It dates from a century after the bringing of the soil from Golgotha, and was erected over the earlier burial ground. The construction of this huge, oblong Gothic cloister was begun in 1278 by the architect Giovanni di Simone. He died in 1284 when Pisa suffered a defeat in the naval battle of Meloria against the Genoans. The cemetery was only completed in 1464. It seems that the building was not meant to be a real cemetery, but a church called Santissima Trinità (Most Holy Trinity), but the project changed during the construction. However we know that the original part was the western one (and this should be, at least for a while, the mentioned church), and all the eastern part was the last to be built, finally closing the structure. The outer wall is composed of 43 blind arches. There are two doorways. The one on the right is crowned by a gracious Gothic tabernacle. It contains the Virgin Mary with Child, surrounded by four saints. It is the work from the second half of the 14th century by a follower of Giovanni Pisano. This was the original entrance door. Most of the tombs are under the arcades, although a few are on the central lawn. The inner court is surrounded by elaborate round arches with slender mullions and plurilobed tracery. The cemetery has three chapels. The oldest ones are the chapel Ammannati (1360) and takes its name from the tomb of Ligo Ammannati, a teacher in the University of Pisa; and the chapel Aulla, were there is an altar made by Giovanni della Robbia in 1518. In the Aulla chapel we can see also the original incense lamp that Galileo Galilei used for calculation of pendular movements. This lamp is the one Galileo saw inside the cathedral, now replaced by a larger more elaborate one. The last chapel was Dal Pozzo, commissioned by archbishop of Pisa Carlo Antonio Dal Pozzo in 1594; it has an altar dedicated to St. Jerome and a little dome. In this chapel in 2009 were translated the relics of the Cathedral: the relics include among the others eleven of the twelve Apostles, two fragments of the True Cross, a thorn from the Crown of Thorns of Christ and a small piece of the dress of the Virgin Mary. Also in the Dal Pozzo chapel sometimes a Mass is celebrated. The Campo Santo contained a huge collection of Roman sarcophagi, but there are only 84 left together with a collection of Roman and Etruscan sculptures and urns, now in the Museum of the vestry board.
The sarcophagi were initially all around the cathedral, often attached to the building itself. That until the cemetery was built, then they were collected in the middle all over the meadow. Carlo Lasinio, in the years he was the curator of the Campo Santo, collected many other ancient relics that were spread in Pisa to make a sort of archeological museum inside the cemetery. Nowadays the sarcophagi are inside the galleries, near the walls. The walls were once covered in frescoes; the first were applied in 1360, the last about three centuries later. The first was the Crucifixion by Francesco Traini, in the south western side. Then, continuing to right, in the southern side, the Last Judgement, The Hell, The Triumph of Death and the Anacoreti nella Tebaide, usually attributed to Buonamico Buffalmacco. The cycle of frescoes continues with the Stories of the Old Testament by Benozzo Gozzoli (15th century) that were situated in the north gallery, while in the south arcade were the Stories of Pisan Saints, by Andrea Bonaiuti, Antonio Veneziano and Spinello Aretino (between 1377 and 1391), and the Stories of Job, by Taddeo Gaddi (end of 14th century). In the same time, in the north gallery were the Stories of the Genesis by Piero di Puccio.
On 27 July 1944, a bomb fragment from an Allied raid started a fire. Due to all the water tanks being controlled, the fire could not be put out in time, and it burnt the wooden rafters and melted the lead of the roof.
PISA - Camposanto Monumentale in Piazza dei Miracoli
Il Campo Santo, noto anche come Camposanto monumentale o Camposanto vecchio, è un cimitero storico monumentale di Pisa, che chiude il lato nord di piazza del Duomo.
Nel Camposanto venivano sepolte le maggiori personalità cittadine, come i rettori e i più prestigiosi docenti dell'Università di Pisa, i governanti e le famiglie più in vista, spesso riutilizzando sarcofagi di epoca romana di grandissimo pregio, e contemporaneamente, dal XVI secolo, iniziando anche un processo di musealizzazione con l'apposizione di iscrizioni romane sulle pareti e altri preziose testimonianze della storia cittadina.
All'interno del Campo Santo sono conservati alcuni anelli della grande catena del Porto Pisano che dopo la sconfitta nella battaglia dello Meloria fu spezzata in varie parti e portata a Genova, dove furono appese come monito a Porta Soprana e in varie chiese e palazzi della città fino a che non vennero donate ai Fiorentini, che le restituirono alla città di Pisa nel 1848; un'altra porzione, posta più a destra, fu restituita direttamente dai Genovesi nel 1860, dopo l'unità d'Italia.
360 video: Camposanto Monumentale, Pisa, Italy
Literally Holy Field, this peaceful cemetery holds the sacred soil from Golgotha. Built in the 13th century, it served as a burial place for wealthy Pisans. It is enveloped by beautiful arcades with many frescoes. Enjoy a tranquil stroll and marvel at imposing funerary monuments, historical sarcophagi, and majestic sculptures.
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Un’insolita, austera cortina marmorea, in netto contrasto con i sontuosi apparati degli edifici monumentali posati sullo stesso prato. Varcata la soglia e abbandonato il clamore della piazza, ci troviamo però in uno spazio inaspettatamente elegante, nel quale contemplare le tante storie dipinte a fresco sulle pareti, la più grande galleria pittorica del Medioevo.Suoni, immagini, parole, ci guidano in un percorso sensoriale designed for all alla scoperta camposanto monumentale e del suo maestoso ciclo di affreschi.Attiva i sottotitoli per usufruire di un ulteriore ausilio.
360 video: Campo Santo, Pisa, Italy
Literally Holy Field, this peaceful cemetery holds the sacred soil from Golgotha. Built in the 13th century, it served as a burial place for wealthy Pisans. It is enveloped by beautiful arcades with many frescoes. Enjoy a tranquil stroll and marvel at imposing funerary monuments, historical sarcophagi, and majestic sculptures.
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360 Video - Pisa, Italy p2 - May 10th 2017 - The Graveyard - Camposanto
The graveyard is an ancient monumental cemetery set on the north side of the Square of Miracles. Begun in 1277 by the architect Giovanni de Simone, it is a rectangular structure with an inner cloister with Gothic arcades. As ancient tradition would have it, the graveyard was built on dirt carried back from the Holy Land, in particular from the place where Jesus was crucified. Within the cloister you’ll find many sarcophaguses and Roman graves, used exclusively for the burial of prestigious men, while beneath the floor are graves of the nobles of Pisa. Here you can admire a lot of artworks including: the Pulpit by Giovanni Pisano, the Lamp by Galileo Galilei, frescoes by Benozzo Gozzoli and Buonamico Buffalmacco with the famous Triumph of Death, a tabernacle by the Della Robbia and many more.
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According to legend, this cemetery was built at the site where the Crusaders placed the soil they brought from the Holy Land.
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Travel blogs from Camposanto:
- ... In Pisa, the Cathedral Square is a walled area at the heart of the city with the Cathedral, Baptistery, Camposanto and the Leaning Tower ...
- ... We didn't enter the vast Camposanto (a marble cemetary) that runs almost the entire length of the square ...
- ... Pure cheese: We then paid to take a look inside the baptistery, the camposanto (a sort of graveyard) filled with sarcophagi and the famous tower ...
- ... In addition, there is a baptistry, the cathedral itself, and the camposanto (cemetery) ...
- ... Bombardımanlar sırasında Camposanto (Anıt Mezar)'daki freskler neredeyse tamamen yok oldular ...
- ... To the side is the Camposanto, where ancient sarcophogi are and carved stones in the floor for people buried there ...
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- Inside Camposanto Looking at the Courtyard by Kitkatgo from a blog titled Seeing the Sights in Pisa
- Monumental Cemetary--Camposanto by Kitkatgo from a blog titled Seeing the Sights in Pisa
- Camposanto after wwii damage by Coryandlaura from a blog titled Off balance in Pisa
- On top of Camposanto Pisa by Edevalla from a blog titled Day 30 Pisa Lucca
- Inside the camposanto by Odgersd from a blog titled Pisa Pie?
- Murals in camposanto by Coryandlaura from a blog titled Off balance in Pisa
- Camposanto Courtyard by Kitkatgo from a blog titled Seeing the Sights in Pisa
- And More Camposanto by Kitkatgo from a blog titled Seeing the Sights in Pisa
- Camposanto Cemetary by Heathertx75 from a blog titled Pisa=wine in water bottles and the best pizza ever
- Camposanto Pisa by Edevalla from a blog titled Day 30 Pisa Lucca
- More Camposanto by Kitkatgo from a blog titled Seeing the Sights in Pisa
- The camposanto by Coryandlaura from a blog titled Off balance in Pisa
- Camposanto by Bsuarez from a blog titled Ostello
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Life and death: these are the two major themes that the frescoes of the Cemetery have in common, and which will make them unforgettable. The most famous scenes of the cycle are definitely those painted by Buffalmacco in the first half of the 1300s after being commissioned by the Dominican Friars.
Go directly to the famous fresco called The Triumph of Death on the wall to the left of the entrance. As you can see, the fresco is unfortunately very damaged, especially with regard to color, but you can still admire all the rich details, the extraordinary expressiveness of the figures, and the narrative force of the scenes where you can also hear the echoes of the shocking visions narrated by Dante in the Divine Comedy. The noble procession in the center of the fresco makes you think of a carefree scene with a chivalric atmosphere, and in fact the presence of hawks and dogs suggests a cheerful hunting trip. But instead of game, there are three open coffins waiting for the participants. The scene, known as The Three Dead and the Three Living, is quite dramatic: there are in fact three corpses in the three coffins, each in a different state of decomposition. The smell of death is such that the rider in front of the central coffin is forced to plug his nose. The episode seems to be a warning, and one that is made even more explicit by the presence of the monk Macario depicted at the foot of the uphill road leading towards a life of prayer and humble work. The symbolic value of the contrast between the vanities of worldly life and the authenticity of monastic life won't be lost on you, which is illustrated by the four eremites at the top.
On the other side of the central hill, a battle between angels and demons rages. Below them, Death appears in the horrible vision of a winged monster, tearing the souls from the pile of deceased in a gruesome tangle of bodies. And like a horror film where a calm interlude serves to further emphasize the tension, in the lower right half of the fresco you can see a group of elegant youth enjoying a relaxing moment in the garden, but in a few moments Death will inevitably fall upon them as well.
FUN FACT: Buffalmacco is also a literary character. Together with his friend Bruno, he would successfully play practical jokes at the expense of the gullible Calandrino in some of the funniest novellas collected by Giovanni Boccaccio in Decameron.
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If you look at it from the outside, Camposanto, or the Cemetery, that's on the north side is perhaps the least spectacular monument in Piazza dei Miracoli. In fact the façade facing the Cathedral and the Baptistery is a simple but elegant marble wall with a row of blind arches at the bottom. But it is inside that you'll discover the extraordinary beauty of this monumental cemetery which you enter from a portal surmounted by a tabernacle with Gothic statues.
In chronological order, this was the last building erected in the square. The Cemetery is rectangular and resembles a cloister. According to legend, the central space of the Cemetery preserves soil from the hill of Mount Calvary in the Holy Land, where Jesus Christ was crucified, which was brought here by some Pisan ships involved in the crusades. Apparently, the Cemetery was built to gather the myriad of tombs that had multiplied in the area around the Cathedral over time. Archbishop Federico Visconti promoted the initiative. Its construction began in the second half of the 1200s and ended in the following century when the beautiful, pointed, perforated arches in a typical Floral Gothic style were made; you can see them surrounding the great central space.
In the beginning the sarcophagi of the most illustrious citizens were placed in this uncovered space, including the rectors and professors of the prestigious University as well as members of important local families, while lesser figures were buried in the vast side corridors.
If you're wondering why you can see some medieval capitals on the central lawn, you should know that in the nineteenth century they decided to move the tombs into the covered galleries, where you can now not only admire the famous medieval frescoes decorating the walls, but also the extraordinary sarcophagi of the Roman ages, ancient epigraphs, sculptures, and more paintings. More than a cemetery, this will almost seem like a museum!
And indeed the cemetery is also a museum where, besides funerary monuments, you can see splendid works of art and magnificent archaeological remains that remind you of Pisa's glorious past.
FUN FACT: in the first decades of the 1800s Camposanto became one of the first public museums in Europe, and for this reason numerous works from local churches and monasteries were collected, as well as from the Cathedral and Baptistery.
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Pisa - Piazza del Duomo
La piazza del Duomo, il più grande complesso monumentale dell’Europa medioevale, è il centro artistico e turistico più importante di Pisa.
Annoverata fra i Patrimoni dell'Umanità dall'UNESCO dal 1987, vi si possono ammirare i monumenti che formano il centro della vita religiosa cittadina, detti miracoli (da Gabriele d'Annunzio) per la loro bellezza e originalità: la Cattedrale, il Battistero, il Campo Santo, e il Campanile, da cui il nome popolare di piazza dei Miracoli diffusosi poi nel dopoguerra, era del turismo di massa.