Orvieto, 2017

We first visited Orvieto in 2011, mostly for the wine, but fell in love with the town and the great Italian Gothic cathedral there, its architecture, the amazingly well-preserved sculpture on its facade, and the Luca Signorelli frescoes in the New Chapel. We visited again in 2013. I don't think I can much improve on my 2011 and 2013 posts:

http://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2011/05/orvieto-duomo.html
http://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2011/05/orvieto-duomo-reliefs.html
http://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2011/05/orvieto-1.html
http://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2011/05/orvieto-2.html
http://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2013/10/orvieto-cathedral-2013.html
http://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2013/10/orvieto-cathedral-2013.html

but I'll try with some new/improved pix. The wine was just a great as in 2011 and 2013.

Starting with some street scenes

Back in the gorgeous Tuscan countryside; OK, it's Umbria, I know, but Tuscany
also looks like this

Ditto

11th century church we just missed getting to before the mid-day
closing

Orvieto cathedral, a late Italian Gothic, beautiful inside and
out

The nave windows are half alabaster, half stained glass

In the port chapel/transcept

The one celebrating the 13th century "miracle" of the wafer "bleeding" onto the
linen, thereby "proving" the doctrine of transubstantiation; "2, 4,6, 8, time to 
transubstantiate"

Now in the port chapel/transcept, the so-called New Chapel: Signorelli's
Resurrection

And Damnation

"Don't worry, sweetheart, it's gonna be just fine"

The sweetly beautiful ceiling by Fra Angelica

More Signorelli...Heavenly concert

Bad stuff happens...

Including the artist, left, in black, an innocent bystander

An interesting case of gender disinformation

Among the several important Renaissance authors depicted in
the chapel

"Digitus impudicus" the Romans called it

Incredibly beautiful place