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Main portal of Basilica di Santa Maria Assunta (1522), Genoa, It #33237644
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Main portal of Basilica di Santa Maria Assunta (1522), Genoa, Italia. It was designed in 1522 by the Perugian architect Galeazzo Alessi by will of a Genoese patrician, Bandinello Sauli, who had died in 1481. The construction lasted from more than fifty years. The dome was completed in 1603, after the church had been consecrated in 1583. In the 19th century the facade was reconstructed by Carlo Bar