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San Michele in Foro

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Title	San Michele in Foro
Alternate Title	Saint Michael in the Forum
View	West front lower section, view of the lintel of the entry
Work Type	buildings basilicas religious buildings churches
Style/Period	Romanesque
Subject.work	architectural exteriors architectural interiors saints intercession for the plague Archangel Michael, St. Roch
Country	Italy
City	Lucca
State/Province	Tuscany
Location.Notes	Piazza S Michele
Architectural Material	stone; marble
Technique	carving (processes); construction (assembling); intarsia
Dates	begun ca. 1143 (creation)
Photographer	Gilchrist, Scott
Date Photographed	10/14/1997
Subject Information	The urban fabric of medieval Lucca, most of which survives, includes many fine Romanesque churches facing piazzas, with bichrome or polychrome marble facades and rich sculptural decoration in the so-called Pisan-Luccan style. The most important churches include S Michele in Foro (begun ca. 1143), Piazza S Michele, the upper part of its tall 13th-century facade featuring four tiers of ornamented arcading. [Site of the church was the former Roman forum.]
Information.source	Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/
Credit Line	copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Collection Title	Archivision (architecture, urban design, gardens, landscapes and public art); Archivision (architecture, urban design, gardens, landscapes and public art)
Collection information	Collection administered by the Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library, (402) 472-1193