Nicola Pisano & 7313 Pisano Asteroid - Florence, Italy - Extraterrestrial Locations on Waymarking.com

THE STATUE
This statue of Nicola Pisano is one othe the 28 that decorate the columns of the Uffizi gallery. In it Nicola Pisano has his cape in his right hand, and his left hand is placed on a sculpture and at his feet he has sculptor hammer. He he his represented in real size and using period clothing.

"With rescript grand-ducal of 11 March 1842 established the Florentine Deputation to implement in the Loggia degli Uffizi statues in honor of various famous Tuscan, chaired by John Ginori, intended to carry out the project of 28 statues of the Florentine Vincenzo Batelli typesetter, who had had to give up for lack of means. The statues, depicting personalities of politics, art, science, literature, etc.., Made in the course of several years (the first 11 in 15 years) were donated to the Community on the occasion of the feast of the patron and placed in the niches designed by Vasari for architectural purposes. To raise the necessary funds resorted to various means: the statue of Nicola Pisano (made from rings) and those of Giotto (Dupré) and Galileo (Costoli) were donated by Lorena, sometimes the States carried out of his own pocket, as in If the Statue of Amerigo Vespucci, paid by Sir Henry Danty or, famous artists such as Lorenzo Bartolini, with "generous patriotism," were content to be paid as other lesser-known artisans, "postergando any special interest." In general, however, to raise funds, the Deputation was organizing "a stake in the round ', or a horse race with jockeys, and some raffles at the Uffizi and Piazza S. Maria Novella. In June 1848, the Deputation, giving the statue by Donatello Bardi, announced that within two years he would donate the other three, 'without doubt, however, the event of the seven statues that then fail to complete the decoration of these Uffizi, because their existence is now exclusively connected making and the outcome of the public raffles."
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Nicola Pisano
"Nicola Pisano (also called Niccolò Pisano, Nicola de Apulia or Nicola Pisanus; c. 1220/1225 – c. 1284) was an Italian sculptor whose work is noted for its classical Roman sculptural style. Pisano is sometimes considered to be the founder of modern sculpture."
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7313 Pisano Asteroid
"Pisano (asteroid 7313) is an asteroid of the main waist, to 2.407311 UA. It has an eccentricity of 0.0647446 and an orbital period of 1 508.33 days (4.13 years).
Pisano has an average orbital velocity of 18.56486266 km / s and a slope of 2.57254º.
This asteroid was discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, Tom Gehrels."
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