San Paolo all'Orto is a church in Pisa

Pisa

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, Tuscany

Tuscany

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, Italy

Italy

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Documented from 1086, it was a priory from the 12th to the 15th centuries, held by Augustinian nuns. The church is now unconsecrated and used for cultural events.

The façade has the typical Pisane stripes of bichrome marble stones, and is articulated in five arcades with lozenges, intarsia

Intarsia

Intarsia is a form of wood inlaying that is similar to marquetry. The term is also used for a similar technique used with small, highly polished stones set in a marble matrix .- History :...

s and capitals sculpted by Biduino (late 12th century). the bell tower, which was rebuilt several times, dates to the 17th century.

The interior has a nave and two aisles, and had once an apse

Apse

In architecture, the apse is a semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical vault or semi-dome...

 destroyed in the 15th century. It houses remains of frescoes and sinopia

Sinopia

Sinopia is a reddish-brown ochre-like earth color pigment used in traditional oil painting. It is used for the cartoon or underpainting for a fresco; indeed, the term is also synecdochically used to refer to underpainting done in sinopia...

s from the 12th-13th centuries; the fresco and stucco decoration is from the 18th century.