" Expulsion from Paradise ", marble bas-relief by Lorenzo Maitani on the Orvieto Cathedral, Italy

Dante Alighieri, detail from a Luca Signorelli fresco in the chapel of Orvieto Cathedral # Chapel of the Madonna di San Brizio | San Brizio, Duomo, Orvieto.

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The gable is usually richly decorated with arcading or sculpture, or in the case of Italy, may be decorated, with the rest of the façade, with polychrome marble and mosaic, as at Orvieto Cathedral.

* Cathedral of Orvieto ( 1570 )

A marble bas relief by Lorenzo Maitani on the Orvieto Cathedral, Italy depicts Eve and the tree

Until October he was in Orvieto, where he painted his fresco of the Madonna and Child in the Cathedral.

Fresco of the Deeds of the Antichrist ( c. 1501 ) in Orvieto Cathedral.

His massive frescoes of the Last Judgment ( 1499 – 1503 ) in Orvieto Cathedral are considered his masterpiece.

The contract for Signorelli's work is still on record in the archives of the Cathedral of Orvieto.

In 1347 he became Master of the Works at Orvieto Cathedral, which had already been designed and begun by Lorenzo Maitani.

Both, especially the former, succeeded him as Master of the Works at Orvieto Cathedral.

His works can also be seen Santa Caterina dei Funari, the Galleria Colonna ( portrait of Vittoria Colonna ), in Orvieto ( Museum of Cathedral ), and in the church of San Francesco in Frascati.

The Romanesque architectural details of the church's interior are emphasised by the decorative use of colour, with the voussoirs of the nave arcades being of alternately black and white marble, creating stripes, as seen at Orvieto Cathedral.

Image: Orvieto-cattedrale02. jpg | The Orvieto Cathedral

Cantilupe died at Ferento, near Orvieto, in Italy, on 25 August 1282 ; he was buried in Hereford Cathedral.

Orvieto Cathedral hired him in 1587, but he did not stay long, returning to Verona in 1589.

Lorenzo Maitani ( c. 1275 – 1330 ) was the Italian architect and sculptor primarily responsible for the construction and decoration of the façade of Orvieto Cathedral.

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Viterbo was placed under interdict for the imprisonment of the cardinals and Rome was not at all inclined to accept a hated Frenchman as Pope, so Martin IV was crowned instead at Orvieto on 23 March 1281.

In 1409 he took part in the Council of Pisa, and was one of the supporters of Antipope Alexander V. Later he confirmed his allegiance to another antipope, John XXIII, by whom his family obtained several privileges, while Oddone obtained for himself the vicariate of Todi, Orvieto, Perugia and Umbria.

Voltumna's cult was centered in Volsini ( modern-day Orvieto ) a polis of the Etruscan Civilization of northwest Italy.

A 13th century sonnet by one Durante ( xcii. 9-14 ) says that he was executed at Orvieto: " a ghiado it fe ' morire a gran dolore, Nella corte di Roma ad Orbivieto.

" The date of this may have been 1283-1284 when Pope Martin IV was in residence at Orvieto.

After completing his studies at the Collegium Romanum, he lived for some time at Orvieto, where he was engaged in teaching and palaeographical studies.

After finishing the frecoes at Orvieto, Signorelli was often in Siena.

A renewed commitment by Charles to retake the Latin Empire ( Treaty of Orvieto, 1281 ) was forestalled by the War of the Sicilian Vespers, and this struggle with the Crown of Aragon consumed the remainder of his life.

Parretti was released by the cort of appeal in Perugia shortly thereafter, ordered to remain in his home town of Orvieto and report to the police three times a week, even though authorities in Rome had requested he be held pending a decision on the extradition.

His flesh was buried in the monastery of San Severo outside Orvieto and his heart and bones were brought back to England.

In the thirteenth century in Florence, in Orvieto ( 1251 ) and some other cities a capitano del popolo ( literally, " captain of the people ") was chosen to look after the interests of the lower classes.

One of the most important and richest Etruscan cities in Province of Terni was Orvieto and an unidentified place called Fanum Voltumnae.

Maitani established his reputation in Siena and was called to supervise the construction at Orvieto in 1308 when the unprecedented height and span of the cathedral's vaults and arches presented unforeseen difficulties.

His son Prudenzio was consul in Orvieto and defeated the Orvieto Ghibellines backed by Siena ; another Pietro defended the town against Emperor Henry VI.

One third of the lake was donated to the Church by the noble family Alberici of Orvieto.

In recognition of the donation the Alberici family was honored with a ceremony three times a year performed by the Bishop of Orvieto.

He was in residence in Orvieto, Italy, with Pope Urban IV, who had established a long term residence there, when he died on 19 March 1263.

Other Umbrian cities, such as Todi, Narni, Orvieto and Terni named him as lord: at this point, Braccio da Montone was ready to form a state for himself in central Italy.

While it is fairly certain that the city is the successor to the ancient Roman town of Volsinii ( sometimes termed Volsinii Novi – New Volsinii – to distinguish it from the Etruscan city ), scholarly opinion is sharply divided as to whether Volsinii was the same as the ancient Etruscan city of Velzna or Velsuna ( sometimes termed Volsinii Veteres – Old Volsinii ), the other candidate being Orvieto, 20 km ( 12 mi ) NE.

Churches in Cetona are the Chiesa di San Michele Arcangelo ( built 1155 ) and the Chiesa la Collegiata della San Trinita church ( 1475 ), as well as the Convento di San Francesco ( since 1212 ) and Convento di Santa Maria a Belverde ( frescoes by Cola Petruccioli of Orvieto ).

l, 400ff ) and Thierricus Vallicoloris, who, in his life of the pope in Latin verse, describes in detail all the events of the pontiff's stay at Orvieto, referring elsewhere also to the devotion of Urban in celebrating the Mass, and to the institution of the Feast of Corpus Christi, without at any time making allusion to a miracle at Bolsena.