Chiostro

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Chiostro (Cloister)
Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano
(Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran)
Piazza di San Giovanni in Laterano
Rome, June 2019

“Between the archbasilica and the city wall there was in former times a great monastery, in which dwelt the community of monks whose duty it was to provide the services in the archbasilica. The only part of it which still survives is the 13th century cloister, surrounded by graceful, twisted columns of inlaid marble. They are of a style intermediate between the Romanesque proper and the Gothic, and are the work of Vassellectus and the Cosmati.” (Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran, Wikipedia)