Asciano, Italy: the dramatic stairway with frescoes painted by Giovanni Antonio Bazzi (Sodoma) in the late 1400s inside Oliveto Monastery.

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Asciano, Italy - June 22, 2017: the dramatic stairway with frescoes painted by Giovanni Antonio Bazzi (Sodoma) in the late 1400s inside Oliveto Monastery, Monte Oliveto Maggiore Abbey, a structure dating from 1320 where Benedictine monks still reside in the Crete Senese countryside in Tuscany

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Location: Tuscany, Italy, Europe
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