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Item Number: 125544
Title: Sole e Simboli - Gli Zodiaci di San Miniato e di San Giovanni a Firenze : Sun and Symbols - The Zodiacs in the Basilica of San Miniato al Monte and in the Baptistry of San Giovanni in Florence
Author: Bartolini, Simone
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788859612735
Description: Firenze: Polistampa, 2013. 24cm., pbk., 121pp., 21 color illus. Italian-English text. Summary: The zodiac, a symbolic reference to cyclic time, is one of the most elevated elements related to the sun and the celestial sphere. The accurate surveys carried out recently have shown that the zodiacs of the Baptistry of San Giovanni and of the Basilica of San Miniato al Monte in Florence not only have a decorative purpose, but they were also built with a precise astronomic function: on the day of the summer solstice, a ray of light still today illuminates the sign of the Cancer on the marble zodiac of San Miniato and such an event makes it the oldest monumental solstice zodiac that is still in working order, in Europe. (Testi e studi, 30)
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