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Museo dell'Opera del Duomo
No museum provides a better overview of Piazza dei Miracoli's trio of architectural masterpieces than the Museum of the Cathedral, the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo. Home to cathedral canons between the 12th and 17th centuries, it has a profusion of works of art once displayed in the tower, cathedral and baptistry. Highlights include Giovanni Pisano's ivory carving of the Madonna and Child (1300) carved for the cathedral's high altar and his Madonna del Colloquio (Madonna of the Colloquium).
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Museo Delle Sinopie
This museum houses vast reddish-brown sketches drawn onto walls as outlines for frescoes - revealed in the cemetery after the WWII artillery raids. Now restored to the best degree possible, these sinopie give a fascinating insight into the process of creating a fresco.
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Museo Nazionale di San Matteo
Along the waterfront boulevard, Lungarno Mediceo, is the Museo Nazionale di San Matteo, a fine gallery that journeys from the ceramics adorning the façades of medieval churches to 12th- and 13th-century Pisan painting (including on crosses) and early Renaissance sculpture.
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Palazzo dell'Orologio
Palazzo dell'Orologio occupies the site of a tower where, in 1288, Count Ugolino della Gherardesca, his sons and grandsons were starved to death on suspicion of helping the Genoese enemy at the Battle of Meloria, an incident recorded in Dante's Inferno .
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