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Looking back at the cathedral
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Wandering back downhill again
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Like a Lambeth Cake in stone.
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It takes a lot of planning and work to make all that decoration look orderly.
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Looking back at the façade
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Back outside again ...
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Really, all those popes are a bit much.
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Some apostle or evangelist in the gift shop.
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Stripes and more stripes.
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Another odd floor inlay
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Eneas Silvio Piccolomini does something in or involving Britain.
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Eneas Silvio Piccolomini encounters weather
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Side chapel, v. sumptuous
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More of the Piccolomini Library
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Pope Pius II does something-or-other
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Illuminated book in the Piccolomini Library
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Lions with unfortunate sheep
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Detail of a large floor inlay in the transept, showing the Massacre of the Innocents
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The Sibylla Hellespontica
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Cathedral dome, with fake light and shadow effects
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Further words from the Sibylla Cumana
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(Cumaean?) Sibyl, something something Virgil eclogue something else.
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Rota Fortuna
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Cathedral interior
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Popes in stone
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Decorative stone inlay in the floor
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Front door, with local saints
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Sculpture on the façade
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A bit of ornament around the doors
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Cathedral door