Porta Grazia ( by Domenico Biundo and Antonio Amato )

Successful recreations have been performed by Anthemius of Tralles ( 6th century AD ), Proclus ( 6th century ) ( who by this means purportedly destroyed the fleet of Vitellus besieging Constantinople ), Ibn Sahl in his On Burning Mirrors and Lenses ( 10th century ), Alhazen in his Book of Optics ( 1021 ), Roger Bacon ( 13th century ), Giambattista della Porta and his friends ( 16th century ), Athanasius Kircher and Gaspar Schott ( 17th century ), the Comte du Buffon in 1740 in Paris, Ioannis Sakas in the 1970s in Greece, and others.

Broken into three pieces, probably in the 6th century, it was found in the 16th century near the Porta Maggiore.

They were completely buried during the Italian occupation until that in 1873, under Austrian rule, the ramparts of Zadar were converted from fortifications into elevated promenades commanding extensive seaward and landward views, thus being the wall lines preserved ; of its four old gates one, the Porta Marina, incorporates the relics of a Roman arch, and another, the Porta di Terraferma, was designed in the 16th century by the Veronese artist Michele Sanmicheli.

Its building history involved some of the most prominent Italian architects of the 16th century, including Michelangelo, Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola and Giacomo della Porta.

Giambattista della Porta was a 16th century Neapolitan scientist and scholar who is credited with a number of scientific innovations, including the camera obscura.

In the 16th century the city strengthened the walls by closing certain ports and keeping only three gates: Porta Lucia, Porta Napoletana and Porta Romana.

Image: Milano-Castello sforzesco-Della Porta, Guglielmo ( 1516-1577 )-Deposizione-Foto Giovanni Dall ' Orto-6-jan-2007. jpg | Guglielmo della Porta. Deposition ( 16th century ).

The 27-metre-high Pyramid of Cestius was built by the end of the first century BC and still exists today, close to the Porta San Paolo.

Sergius founded the diaconie of S. Maria in Via Lata on the Corso from the Porta Flaminia to Capitoline Hill, encompassing a quarter of the city which developed in the eighth century.

The Porta Rosa is a Greece | Greek street dating from the 3rd to 4th century BC in Velia, Italy with a Road surface | paved surface and Street gutter | gutter s.

* Late 1st century BC – Garden Scene, detail of a wall painting from the Villa of Livia at Prima Porta, is made.

In the early 21st century, Milan underwent a series of massive redevelopments, with the moving of its exhibition center to a much larger site in the satellite town of Rho, and the construction of a new financial district in Porta Nuova.

The original design was by Antonio and Aristotile da Sangallo, and included the Porta Marzia ( 3rd century BC ), the tower of Gentile Baglioni's house and a mediaeval cellar.

File: Velia. jpg | The dry stone bridge, so called Porta Rosa ( 4th century BC ), in Elea

The remains of a large subterranean Neopythagorean Christian basilica dating from the 1st century AD were found near the Porta Maggiore in Rome in 1915.

This gate, which survived for slightly more than a century, was known as Porta Reale, Putirjal in Maltese and Kingsgate in English.

Porta Soprana is the best known gate in the ancient Genoa city wallsThe city of Genoa during its long history at least since 9th century had been defended by different line of walls.

These had originally four gates, Porta al Borgo, Porta San Marco, Porta Carratica and Porta Lucchese, all demolished at the beginning of the 20th century.

In 1915, a subterranean basilica where 1st century Neo-Pythagoreans held their meetings was discovered near Porta Maggiore on Via Praenestina, Rome.

They built a new road, the via Portuensis, to connect Rome with Fiumicino, leaving the city by Porta Portese (' the port gate ').

A church ( San Giovanni a Porta Latina ) dedicated to him was built near the Latin gate of Rome, the traditional scene of this event.

A church ( San Giovanni a Porta Latina ) dedicated to him was built near the Latin gate of Rome, the traditional scene of this event.

Porta San Sebastiano is the gate of the Appia in the Aurelian Walls.

The building of the Aurelian Wall centuries later required the placing of another gate, the Porta Appia.

* Porta Appia ( Porta San Sebastiano ), the gate of the Aurelian Walls

In the year 1810 by Porta Giulia, a gate of the town at Borgo di Porto ( Cittadella ), Andreas Hofer was shot ; he had led the insurrection in the County of Tyrol against Napoleon.

* Etruscan Arch ( also known as Porta Augusta ), an Etruscan gate with Roman elements.

* The small Roman gate of Porta Sant ' Angelo, one of the four ancient entrances to the city, much restored.

The military engineer Francesco Laparelli de Carotona designed the original gate, known as Porta San Giorgio, which was erected between April 1566 and 1569.

During the rule of Grand Master Antoine de Paule, the Maltese architect Tommaso Dingli designed a more ornate gate that replaced the Porta in 1632.

The gate by which it left the Servian walls of Rome bore the name Porta Capena ; perhaps the only case in which a gate in this enceinte bears the name of the place to which it led.

The west gate was the Porta Romana ; remains of the east gate ( the name of which we do not know ) have been found.

She had a sanctuary near the gate which led to the capitol and which was called the Porta Pandana after her.

Similarly his tutelage extends to the covered passages named iani and foremost to the gates of the city, including the cultic gate called the Argiletum, named Ianus Geminus or Porta Ianualis from which he protects Rome against the Sabines.

The origin of this epithet might be either concrete, referring directly to the image of the god reproduced on coins and supposed to have been introduced by king Numa in the sanctuary at the lowest point of the Argiletum, or to a feature of the Ianus of the Porta Belli: a double gate ritually opened at the beginning of wars, or abstract, deriving metaphorically from the liminal, intermediary functions of the god themselves: both in time and space passages connected two different spheres, realms or worlds.

His function of custos guardian is highlighted by the location of his temple inside the pomerium but not far from the gate of Porta Collina or Quirinalis, near the shrines of Sancus and Salus.

The name “ Porta Westfalica ” is Latin and means “ gate to Westphalia ”.

The name Porta Westfalica is the Latin expression for " Westphalian Gate ", as the gorge appears like a gate to the region Westphalia, which lies to the south of it.

Fra Bartolomeo or Fra Bartolommeo ( di Pagholo ) ( March 28, 1472 – October 6, 1517 ), also known as Baccio della Porta, was an Italian Renaissance painter of religious subjects.

The major Roman projects are St. Peter's, Palazzo Farnese, San Giovanni dei Fiorentini, the Sforza Chapel ( Capella Sforza ) in the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, Porta Pia and Santa Maria degli Angeli.

* South: at the intersection of the Via della Stazione Vaticana and the Via di Porta Cavalleggeri ()

File: Porta di Ponte. JPG | Porta di Ponte

This island formed the heart of the original city and it's connected to the mainland by the Ponte di Porta Napoli and the Ponte Girevole.

Italian sculptors whose work is held by the museum include: Bartolomeo Bon, Bartolomeo Bellano, Luca della Robbia, Giovanni Pisano, Donatello, Agostino di Duccio, Andrea Riccio, Antonio Rossellino, Andrea del Verrocchio, Antonio Lombardo, Andrea Riccio, Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi, Andrea della Robbia, Michelozzo di Bartolomeo, Michelangelo ( represented by a freehand wax model and casts of his most famous sculptures ), Jacopo Sansovino, Alessandro Algardi, Antonio Calcagni, Benvenuto Cellini ( Medusa's head dated c1547 ), Agostino Busti, Bartolomeo Ammannati, Giacomo della Porta, Giambologna ( Samson Slaying a Philistine ( Giambologna ) c1562, his finest work outside Italy ), Bernini ( Neptune and Triton c1622 – 3 ), Giovanni Battista Foggini, Vincenzo Foggini ( Samson and the Philistines ), Massimiliano Soldani Benzi, Antonio Corradini, Andrea Brustolon, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Innocenzo Spinazzi, Canova, Carlo Marochetti and Raffaelle Monti.

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" ( Lanciani, 1896 ch 1 ) Like prophets, Renaissance sibyls forecasting the advent of Christ appear in monuments: modelled by Giacomo della Porta in the Santa Casa at Loreto, painted by Raphael in Santa Maria della Pace, by Pinturicchio in the Borgia apartments of the Vatican, engraved by Baccio Baldini, a contemporary of Botticelli, and graffites by Matteo di Giovanni in the pavement of the Duomo of Siena.

* 1948: Ladri di biciclette, regìa di Vittorio De Sica ( voce del venditore di biciclette a Porta Portese, attore non identificato )

Piero di Cosimo exercised considerable influence upon his fellow pupils Albertinelli and Bartolomeo della Porta, and was the master of Andrea del Sarto.

The entrance to the Archives, adjacent to the Vatican Library, is approached through the Porta di S. Anna in via di Porta Angelica ( rione of Borgo ).

However worshippers never used the façade doors to enter, instead entering by way of the Porta di San Ranieri ( St. Ranieri's Door ), in front of the Leaning Tower, made in around 1180 by Bonanno Pisano.