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Informations about Pisa: Museums
The National Museum of S. Matteo, among the most important for the Italian medieval art, it picks up besides sculptures of Giovanni Pisano, Andrew Pisano, Michelozzo, Verrocchio; pictures of F. Drawings, Giunta Pisano, of the Teacher of S. Martin, S. Martin, Giovanni from Milan, Masaccio, B. Gozzoli, etc. The cemetery contains an important harvest of antiquity, particularly Roman sarcofagi, riutilizzati in the Middle Ages, with various representations. Notable also the portraits of Caesar and Agrippa and a funeral stele attica of the sec. IV TO. C.

Culture: cultural institutes
The university of P. (or Wisdom) it was officially born with the 1343 Clemente Vi bead; it received impulse, subsequently, for worth of Lawrence de' Physicians, that the jobs began for the construction of the building of the Wisdom and called you illustrious teachers, kind by law, and of Cosimo I, which founded the statutes remained in vigor up to the sec. XVIII and the arrangement for colleges (College of the Wisdom, Ferdinandeo, Curly, Puteano, Victorian) that it constitutes a characteristic of the athenaeum pisano. In the sec. XVI AND XVII, P. and its universities became one of the more important scientific centers of Italy with the teaching of G. Falloppia, To. Cesalpino, G. Galilei and M. Malpighi. To the beginning of the sec. XIX, with the French domination, university was turned into the imperial Academy, dependent from the university in Paris, sets to head of the whole Tuscan scholastic arrangement and widened with the Academic Pensioner and the Superior Normal School. Today it is articulated in 11 faculties; in the Superior School of university studies and improvement they have been reunited the colleges physician, agrarian and juridical. From the university the Center of search and agrarian and business experimentation of S. depends Peter to Degree. ? Among the principal libraries of the city they are to remember the Arcivescovile, founded by the cardinal P. Maffi in 1904, rich of medieval (the most ancient of 724) parchments; the Cateriniana, already existing perhaps in the sec. XIII; that of the Domus Galileiana, founded in 1942 with important correspondences and autographs of eminent scientists; the university one, founded in 1742, that it now has over 400.000 volumes and over 1000 manuscripts, among which the Liber maiolichinus (sec. XII-XIII); the library of the Superior Normal School, founded in 1813, that preserve important funds of the most famous teachers in the school (Barbels, Of Ancona, Easter, etc.)

Important Romanesque churches are S. Paul to Ripa of Arno, S. Sepulchre and S. Peter to Degree (sec. XI-XII). To the sec. XIII instead S. go up again Caterina (to the inside, works of the Drawings and Nino Pisano) and S. Francis. Fourteenth-century it is the small one elegant church of S. Maria of the Spina, that preserves statues of Thomas Pisano. The city, impoverished deeply in the sec. XV, rifiorì to the epoch of the dominion mediceo, when they rose, in the Riders' (ancient center of the city) plaza, the building of the Riders and the church of S. Stephen (to the inside, bust of Donatello) both of the Vasari (1562-69). Subsequently P., even though vivacious from the cultural point of view for the presence of the university, it didn't have great demonstrations of art.