Italy audio travel guide. The Baptistery constituted the heart of city's spiritual life and was used for centuries to baptize every Florentine child, thus serving
Enhance your holiday travel experience by downloading this audio tour of the Baptistery of San Giovanni in Florence, Italy.
Great Discoveries Audio Tour of the Battistero di San Giovanni will provide you with the most enjoyable and informative way to visit Florence Italy's oldest building.
From the earliest times the Baptistery constituted the heart of city's spiritual life and was used for centuries to baptize every Florentine child, thus serving as a religious focus and a way of strengthening the allegiance of Florentine's to the city of their birth.
The Baptistery is a building that is beautiful to look at, both inside and out, a masterpiece of architecture whose beginnings date back to antiquity. Like many holy places in Europe, there is no way of telling exactly how long the Baptistery has been revered. The origins of the temple, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, are uncertain but according to local lore there has been some sort of shrine on this spot since ancient Roman times, a temple dedicated to Mars, the Roman god of war. Dante himself declared that his "beautiful San Giovanni" was a classical Roman building.
The Baptistery's decorations reflect the work of generations of artists who have made it into a tangible example of Florence's main achievements in the field of art.
From its Romanesque sheathing of green and white marble to its Mannerist statuary, from the Byzantine and medieval imprint of its mosaics, to the ambitious casting of its three spectacular sets of bronze doors, the Baptistery reflects Florence's growth in art, from the darkest of the dark ages through the Renaissance.
This carefully researched tour guides you through this magnificent building as a professional narrator accompanied by historically appropriate background music points out and describes the most significant works of art done by some of the most hallowed names in early Italian art.
Step back in history as you listen to enchanting tales of the Baptistery, her treasures and of course Ghiberti's spectacular east doors, 'the Gates of Paradise . Shatter your idea of history, throw down your guidebook and venture off to see and hear the stories behind the art that became the Renaissance.
Guides are recorded in easy to follow segments that are readily located your iPod. This 36-minute 4 track, audio tour is designed to work with an easy to read building diagram, with clearly numbered locations, which coordinate with the track numbers and descriptions displayed on your iPod.
Author/Narrator: Bill Browne, Spoken by Christopher K
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Enhance your holiday travel experience by downloading this audio tour of the Baptistery of San Giovanni in Florence, Italy.
Great Discoveries Audio Tour of the Battistero di San Giovanni will provide you with the most enjoyable and informative way to visit Florence Italy's oldest building.
From the earliest times the Baptistery constituted the heart of city's spiritual life and was used for centuries to baptize every Florentine child, thus serving as a religious focus and a way of strengthening the allegiance of Florentine's to the city of their birth.
The Baptistery is a building that is beautiful to look at, both inside and out, a masterpiece of architecture whose beginnings date back to antiquity. Like many holy places in Europe, there is no way of telling exactly how long the Baptistery has been revered. The origins of the temple, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, are uncertain but according to local lore there has been some sort of shrine on this spot since ancient Roman times, a temple dedicated to Mars, the Roman god of war. Dante himself declared that his "beautiful San Giovanni" was a classical Roman building.
The Baptistery's decorations reflect the work of generations of artists who have made it into a tangible example of Florence's main achievements in the field of art.
From its Romanesque sheathing of green and white marble to its Mannerist statuary, from the Byzantine and medieval imprint of its mosaics, to the ambitious casting of its three spectacular sets of bronze doors, the Baptistery reflects Florence's growth in art, from the darkest of the dark ages through the Renaissance.
This carefully researched tour guides you through this magnificent building as a professional narrator accompanied by historically appropriate background music points out and describes the most significant works of art done by some of the most hallowed names in early Italian art.
Step back in history as you listen to enchanting tales of the Baptistery, her treasures and of course Ghiberti's spectacular east doors, 'the Gates of Paradise . Shatter your idea of history, throw down your guidebook and venture off to see and hear the stories behind the art that became the Renaissance.
Guides are recorded in easy to follow segments that are readily located your iPod. This 36-minute 4 track, audio tour is designed to work with an easy to read building diagram, with clearly numbered locations, which coordinate with the track numbers and descriptions displayed on your iPod.
Author/Narrator: Bill Browne, Spoken by Christopher K
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