Volpedo
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Volpedo is a municipality in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont. The painter Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo (1868-1907) was born in this village.
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The Town Hall
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Campanile of the parish church
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The atelier where the painter Giuseppe Pelizza da Volpedo worked
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The house and the courtyard where Pelizza lived
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Copy of the painting Quarto Stato in a square where the social struggle took place
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Malaspina palace in Quarto Stato square
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Moulds of the main characters painted in Quarto Stato placed before the cemetery
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The ancient walls (XVI century)
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View of the old village
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View of Torraglio road
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Panorama of Volpedo
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Volpedo with Monte Rosa
The Pieve di San Pietro and its frescoes
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Pieve di San Pietro, the facade
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Pieve di San Pietro, the apse
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Pieve di San Pietro, view of the interior of the church
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Frescoes in the apse (XV century)
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Saint Michael, detail of tha apse frescoes, ,
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King David, detail of the apse frescoes
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Unknown painter , Apostles, detail of the apse frescoes, XV century
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Madonna and Child, fresco fragment,
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Quirico da Tortona , Madonna and Child with St. James the Greater and St. Agatha, fresco on a church pillar, 1502
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Painter signing himself as “Antonius” (?), Saints Cosmas and Diaman, fresco on a church pillar, ca 1462
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Unknown painter, Saint Bartholomew the Apostle , fresco on a church pillar
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Unknown painter, St. James the Greater and St. Peter martyr, fresco on a church pillar, XV century