San Tommaso or San Tommaso in Pelleria is a Romanesque- style, Roman Catholic church located on Piazza of the same name in central Lucca, region of Tuscany, Italy.
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The Palazzo Galli Tassi is an architectural complex located in the historic centre of Lucca, Italy. It serves primarily as the city's courthouse, while two lateral wings on Piazzale San Donato are occupied by municipal offices.
Its main entrance, on Via Galli Tassi, leads into a central building that opens onto a wide internal courtyard, which functions as the organizational core of the entire site. From this structure, four long wings extend toward the back of the property. Together, these interconnected structures form a pavilion-style layout.
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The Museo Nazionale di Palazzo Mansi is one of the two main art museum hosting tapestry collections and mainly post-19th century art collections owned by the city of Lucca, Italy. The collection is displayed in the Baroque palace, formerly belonging to the Mansi family, and located in central Lucca. Many of the original room decorations remain in place.
The Palace was first erected at the site of a few earlier tower-houses bought in 1616 by the Lucchese merchant of silk Ascanio Mansi and his descendants. While the facade retains earlier Renaissance window features, between 1686 and 1691, Ascanio's son Raffaello employed the architect Raffaello Mazzanti to further renovate the now palace, and the piano nobile rooms acquired the present decoration and a grand staircase access. The cooler ground floor rooms were turned into a summer apartment.
In the second half of the 18th century, Luigi Mansi pursued further refurbishing. The Mansi family retained prestige in the early 19th century; Raffaele Mansi and Camilla Parensi had been appointed courtiers to Elisa Bonaparte and Felice Baciocchi. Raffaello Mansi Orsetti, who died in 1956, was the first to display the art collections to the public. In the mid-1960s his children sold the palace to the state, which has converted into a National Museum of arts and tapestries.
The interiors house a highly decorated bedroom alcove with gilded caryatid columns flanking the portal.
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Santi Crocifisso dei Bianchi is a Roman Catholic church located on Via del Crocifisso, in Lucca, region of Tuscany, Italy
The church's named derives from the a fraternity of flagellants, called Penitenti Bianchi, formed in the 14th century. They had a particular devotion to a wooden crucifix located in the church of San Romano in Lucca.
The church was refurbished in 1761 by Francesco Pini; the interior split into three naves, and decorated with frescoes by Lorenzo Castellotti. The main altar built at the end of the 17th century. The church in 2015 is presently deconsecrated and closed. Previously called San Benedetto in Palazzo; it once housed two canvases: an Assumption by Giuseppe Ribera and a Martydrom of St Bartholomew by Pompeo Batoni. The crucifix from the church is now in the chapel of the Archbishop's palace.
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Santa Maria Corteorlandini is a Baroque- style, Roman Catholic church located on a street of the same name in Lucca, region of Tuscany, Italy.
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San Paolino or Santi Paolino e Donato is a Renaissance- style minor basilica church in Lucca, Tuscany, central Italy. It is dedicated to Saint Paulinus of Antioch, patron of the city.