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 Palazzo della Carovana - Pisa, Italy Posted by:  razalas
N 43° 43.173 E 010° 24.018
32T E 612795 N 4841677
Palazzo della Carovana (also Palazzo dei Cavalieri)was the headquarters on the Military Order of Knights of St. Stephen.
Waymark Code: WMZG5C
Location: Toscana, Italy
Date Posted: 11/06/2018
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The official tourism website of Pisa tell us about the Palazzo della Carovana:
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""The medieval Palazzo degli Anziani was originally a tower that can be seen on the south on via Consoli del Mare. It was adapted and rebuilt by Giorgio Vasari at the command of Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici who had decided to found the seafaring military order of Knights of St. Stephen in 1558 and provide them with headquarters. The name Palazzo della Carovana derives from the training (‘carovana’) the knights had to submit to. Vasari visited Pisa only in 1561 to study the square and the position of the buildings, but before two years were over, the palazzo was ready and the knights were living in it (1562-1564).
Vasari designed a symmetrical building, achieving an effect of evenness and harmony by use of pictorial decoration and stonework that gave rhythm to the facade and masked the differences among the old buildings. Tommaso Battista del Verrocchio and Alessandro Forzori from Arezzo carried out the graffitto decoration on the facade (today vastly restored) based on sketches by Vasari. At the centre is the Medici-Stephanian coat of arms, set between allegorical figures of Religion and Justice, the work of Stoldo Lorenzi (1563). The coats of arms on the corners are by Giovanni Fancelli (1564).
The double marble staircase that replaced an earlier one was built by Giuseppe Marchelli in 1821.
On the upper part of the façade, inserted in niches, are half-busts of the Medici Dukes: Cosimo I, Francis I e Ferdinand I were carved between 1590 and 1596 by Ridolfo Sirigatti; Cosimo II was carved in about 1633 by the sculptor Pietro Tacca while Ferdinand II and Cosimo III were carved in 1681 and 1718, by Giovan Battista Foggini.
Inside the palazzo, now the headquarters of the Scuola Normale Superiore, are several rooms with 16th century decorations."
The wikipedia tell us about the Military Order of St. Stephen:
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""The Order of Saint Stephen (Official: Sacred Militare Ordine di Santo Stefano Pope and Martire, "Holy Military Order of St. Stephen Pope and Martyr") is a Roman Catholic Tuscan dynastic military order founded in 1561. The order was created by Cosimo I of 'Medici, first Grand Duke of Tuscany. The last member of the Medici dynasty to be leader of the order was Gian Gastone de Medici in 1737. The order was permanently abolished in 1859 by the annexation of Tuscany to the Kingdom of Sardinia. The former Kingdom of Italy and the current Italian Republic also did not recognize the order as a legal entity but tolerates it as a private body."
Name of Military Order: Other Order from Wikipedia List (Specify in the Description)
Link documenting charitable acts: Not listed
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