![]() Engaged with the portal frame are two smaller three-quarter columns with a simpler, less deep floral ornamentation. The door is flanked by two columns with foliage decoration, a direct copy of a classical model. ![]() The east portal from probably around 1200 is facing the facade of the cathedral. Like the cathedral and the campanile the Baptistery is built of bichromatic Carrara marble, white with recurring horizontal lines in blueish-grey stone, also used for abstract floral and graphic decoration, a unique trait of some of the most important religious buildings in Tuscany (In the neighboring Florence and Pistoia the dark marmo verde from Prato was used). The Pisa Baptistery is an example of the transition from the Romanesque style to the Gothic style: the lower section is in the Romanesque style, with rounded arches, while the upper sections are in the Gothic style, with pointed wimpergs and a rich figurative program. The largest baptistery in Italy, it is 54.86 m high, with a diameter of 34.13 m. The baptistery was designed by Diotisalvi, whose signature can be read on two pillars inside the building, with the date 1153. Construction started in 1152 to replace an older baptistery, and when it was completed in 1363, it became the second building, in chronological order, in the Piazza dei Miracoli, near the Duomo di Pisa and the cathedral's free-standing campanile, the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa. John ( Italian: Battistero di San Giovanni) is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical building in Pisa, Italy.
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