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The Diocesan Museum and the Tiepolo Galleries, begun in 1610 by Patriarch Francesco Barbaro, was completed a century later and was frescoed by a young Giambattista Tiepolo. His artistic presence, considered the last great painter of the Venetian school, is so strong that the Friulian capital deserves the nickname of "City of Tiepolo". The museum's collection includes around 700 works, including ...
The patriarchal basilica of Sant'Eufemia is the main religious building in Grado (GO) and the ancient cathedral of the suppressed Patriarchate of Grado. Dating back to the sixth century, it stands on the square of the ancient patriarchal city, flanked by the baptistery and the spire-shaped bell tower of the fifteenth century. On the site there was an earlier basilica of the fifth century, perhaps commissioned by the metropolitan of Aquileia Niceta (454-485) at the time of the invasion of Attila. ...