Orvieto Cathedral façade
Lorenzo Maitani
1310-30
“Madonna and Child”,
Lorenzo Maitani
1325-30
Marble
Orvieto Cathedral lunette
First Pillar: Genesis
Lorenzo Maitani
1310-30
Marble
Orvieto Cathedral
First Pillar: Genesis, detail
First Pillar:
God creates Man
First Pillar:
The First Five Days of Creation
First Pillar:
God blows life into man,
God takes a rib from Adam,
God creates Eve
First Pillar:
The Fall of Man
First Pillar: Genesis, detail
First Pillar: Expulsion from Paradise
Labours of Adam and Eve
First Pillar: Sacrifice of Cain and Abel
Cain murders Abel
First Pillar: the First Activities of Man
Second Pillar: The Messianic Prophesies
(Tree of Jesse)
Lorenzo Maitani
1310-30
Marble
Orvieto Cathedral
Second Pillar:
Abraham’s skeleton and the judges of Israel
Second Pillar:
Abraham sleeping
Second Pillar:
Samuel anoints David
Second Pillar:
King David
Second Pillar: Prophecy of Balaam
Second Pillar: Balaam and the Ass
Second Pillar, detail
Second Pillar: Illustration of the Messiah’s Coming
Second Pillar:
Melchizedek offers Bread and Wine to Abraham
Second Pillar, detail
Second Pillar:
Crucified Christ between Sun and Moon
Third Pillar: New Testament
Lorenzo Maitani
1310-30
Marble
Orvieto Cathedral
Third Pillar: Jacob Sleeping
Third Pillar,
detail
Third Pillar: the Visitation
Third Pillar: the Visitation, detail
Third Pillar: the Visitation, detail
Lucca della Robbia
Meeting of Mary and Elisabeth
c. 1450
White terracotta, 153 cm
San Giovanni Fuorcivitas, Pistoia
hird Pillar: the Nativity, detail
Third Pillar: Adoration of the Magi
Third Pillar: Presentation in the Temple
Third Pillar: Flight into Egypt
Third Pillar: Massacre of the Innocents
Third Pillar: Jesus Among the Doctors in the Temple
Third Pillar, detail
Third Pillar: Baptism of Christ
Third Pillar: Crucifixion
Third Pillar: Mary Magdalene at Christ’s Tomb
Third Pillar: Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene/
“Noli me Tangere”
Fourth Pillar: Last Judgement
Lorenzo Maitani
1310-30
Marble
Orvieto Cathedral
Fourth Pillar, detail
Fourth Pillar: Resurrection of the Dead
Fourth Pillar: the Damned
Fourth Pillar: the Saved
Fourth Pillar: the Saved, detail
Fourth Pillar: the Damned, detail
Fourth Pillar: the Damned being sent to Hell
Fourth Pillar: the Damned being sent to Hell
Fourth Pillar: the Damned, detail
Fourth Pillar: the Damned, detail
Fourth Pillar: the Damned, detail
Fourth Pillar: the Damned, detail
Fourth Pillar, detail
Fourth Pillar: Group of Saints
Fourth Pillar: Group of Female Saints
Fourth Pillar: Christ in Judgement
Fourth Pillar: Trumpeting Angels