Pistoia Cathedral - Façade

The facade, with its seven-arched portico and three doorways, was completed in 1311. The vaulting behind the central arch, which is higher than the others, is decorated with panels of majolica, and the lunette over the central doorway has a glazed terracotta relief of the Virgin and Child with two Angels by Andrea della Robbia (1505). In the center of the facade above the portico are two orders of arcading, and above these, at the ends of the pediment, are marble figures of the church's patrons, SS James and Zeno.