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Pisa Baptistery

The Pisa Baptistery of St. John (Italian: Battistero di San Giovanni) is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical building in Pisa, Italy. Construction started in 1152 to replace an older baptistery, and when it was completed in 1363, it became the second building, in chronological order, in the Piazza dei Miracoli, near the Duomo di Pisa and the cathedral's free-standing campanile, the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa. The baptistery was designed by Diotisalvi, whose signature can be read on two pillars inside the building, with the date 1153.[1]

Pisa Baptistery

Roman Catholic

Piazza del Duomo, 23, 56126 Pisa PI, Italy

43°43′24″N 10°23′38″E / 43.72333°N 10.39389°E / 43.72333; 10.39389

1363

The Pisa Baptistery

The Pisa Baptistery

View from north-east showing the two colours of the dome

View from north-east showing the two colours of the dome

The Pisa Baptistery

The Pisa Baptistery

Baptistery font

Baptistery font

Baptistery interior

Baptistery interior

Baptistery dome

Baptistery dome

Baptistery columns

Baptistery columns

A fisheye view of the interior

A fisheye view of the interior

Acoustic resonance and reverberation demonstration

History of medieval Arabic and Western European domes

List of tallest domes

Rory Carroll, "Pisa Baptistery is giant musical instrument, computers show,"

Pasini, Daria. Ancora sull’epigrafe con triplice invocazione all’arcangelo Michele [Again on the Epigraph with the Triple Invocation to the Archangel Michael]. GRADUS: Rivista di Archeologia e di Restauro, 10, 1: 18-24, URL:

Inscription

Perono Cacciafoco, Francesco. The Undeciphered Inscription of the Baptistery of Pisa. Academia Letters, 3359: 1-6, DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20935/AL3359