The Lordship of Carrara (Italian: Signoria di Carrara) was an Italian feudal state centered in Carrara, in what is now northern Tuscany. It was associated...

1447, Carrara was fought over by Tommaso Campofregoso, lord of Sarzana, and again the Malaspina family, who moved here the seat of their signoria in the...

Florence Cathedral (Duomo di Firenze), but was instead placed in the public square in front of the Palazzo della Signoria, the seat of civic government...

technical aspects, and Donatello took to the medium very quickly. In 1418 the Signoria commissioned a large and imposing figure of Florence's heraldic lion, the...

Castelnuovo di Garfagnana Castiglione di Garfagnana Lucca Pietrasanta Villa Basilica In the province of Massa and Carrara: Massa and Carrara Pontremoli...

unfinished project begun 40 years earlier by Agostino di Duccio: a colossal statue of Carrara marble portraying David as a symbol of Florentine freedom...

Child Enthroned with Saints was painted in 1513 on commission by the Signoria di Carrara Alberico Malaspina Regolo for the church of San Francesco in Massa...

(1388–1390) when Giangaleazzo Visconti held the town. The period of the signoria is covered down to 1358 in the chronicle of Guglielmo Cortusi. The Carraresi...

The Venetian government had to consequently seek assistance from the Signoria of Florence which sent Paolo Uccello. Other Florentine artists, including...

the lIlustrissima et Excellentissima deta Signoria de Venexia ('The Most Illustrious and Excellent Signoria of Venice'). During the 17th century, monarchical...