Chiese monumentali di Firenze
BaptisteryCathedral
P.za S. Giovanni (started by Arnolfo di Cambio in 1296. Romanesque architecture.
Dome by Brunelleschi, fresco of monumento Nicolo da Tolentino by A. del Castagno).
Orsanmichele
Via dei Calzaiuoli (rebuilt in 1337 by F. Talenti and others. Tabernacles
of the Patron Saints of the Guilds, Tabernacle by Orcagna).
S. Croce
P.za S. Croce (built in 1294, attributed to Arnolfo di Cambio, Gothic architecture;
Pulpit by Benedetto da Maiano; Bardi and Peruzzi Chapels frescoed by Giotto.
Donatello's Annunciation; Pazzi Chapel built by Brunelleschi.
S. Lorenzo
P.zza S. Lorenzo (Romanesque architecture with alterations by Brunelleschi;
Pulpits by Donatello, old Sacristy, cloister).
S. Maria Novella
P.za S. Maria Novella (Romanesque architecture, started in 1246 and completed
in 1360) Doorway by L.B.Alberti, Rucellai Chapel, Frescoes by F. Lippi. Crucifix
by Brunelleschi the Holy Trinity, Mary and St. John by Masaccio, Cloisters frescoes
by P. Uccello).
S. Miniato al Monte V.le Galileo
(Florentine Romanesque architecture, Chapel of the Crucifixion by Michelozzo,
Stories of St. Benedict, Chapel of St. Jacob).
S. Maria del Carmine - P.za del Carmine
(Romanesque Gothic with various alterations; Brancacci Chapel with frescoes
by Masaccio and F. Lippi).
S. Spirito
P.za S. Spirito (Renaissance architecture, started in 1444 by Brunelleschi;
Belltower by Baccio D'Agnolo, Vestibule, Sacristy, Last Supper of S. Spirito
frescoed by Orcagna).
Ognissanti
Via Ognissanti 42 (rebuilt on a design by Pettirossi in the first half of
the seventeenth century: visit to the "Last Supper" by Ghirlandaio
in the Refectory).
Badia Fiorentina
Via del Proconsolo (Romanesque architecture, altered in Baroque period,
painting by Lippi).
S. Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi
B.go Pinti (dating from the Xlll century, with alterations by G. da Sangallo;
frescoes by Perugino).
S. Trinita
P.za S. Trinita (Romanesque architecture altered in Gothic times, facade
by B. Buontalenti).
SS. Annunziata
P.za della SS. Annunziata (built in 1250, rebuilt by Michelozzo; Nativity
of the Virgin by A. del Sarto, Holy Trinity by A. del Castagno).
SS. Apostoli
P.za del Limbo (Romanesque architecture).
S. Felicita
P.za di S. Felicita (rebuilt in 1736 by F.Ruggeri; portico by Vasari, paintings
by Pontormo).