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- BRIEF GUIDE OF SIENA -
by Stefano Maccianti



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The arches of Palazzo Salimbeni rise upwards. Just turn your gaze to the right and admire the facade of the sixteenth-century Palazzo Spannocchi to see that there, the Renaissance arches have a different shape: they are rounded. Furthermore, the idea of symmetry associated with beauty was not a medieval concern, but appeared later with Renaissance aesthetics.