Firenze Santa Croce Temple of the Italian glories

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Firenze
Basilica di Santa Croce
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E' molto semplice non si vede bene che col
cuore. L'essenziale è invisibile agli occhi
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince
Santa Croce Florence is also known as the Temple
of the Italian Glories to honor the brilliant
native sons who are buried here
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Among these great men and women are Michelangelo,
Marconi, inventor of the radio-telegraph the
composer Gioacchino Rossini Eugenio Barsanti,
co-inventor of the internal combustion engine
astronomer Galileo, whose reputed experiments of
dropping objects off the Leaning Tower of Pisa
are legendary Leon Battista Alberti, Vittorio
Alfieri, and many others.
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These Italian luminaries have made contributions
to the world in the fields of art, architecture,
science, technology, astrology, philosophy, music
and literature.
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Annunciation (1433) carved in low relief of
pietra serena and gilded by Donatello
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The Basilica is the largest Franciscan church in
the world. Its most notable features are its
sixteen chapels, many of them decorated with
frescoes by Giotto and his pupils
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Sacristie - Santa Croce
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Spinello di Luca Spinelli Aretino (Spinello
Aretino) Jésus-Christ Calvary Ascent to
Calvary Sacristie - Santa Croce
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In 1560, the choir screen was removed and the
interior rebuilt by Giorgio Vasari, who damaged
the church's decoration in the process.
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The Basilica di Santa Croce is also one of the
finest museums in Italy, with art and
architecture rivaling that in the Uffizi Gallery.
Cappella Castellani. Croce monumentale di Nicolo
di Pietri Gerini (ca. 1340-1414)
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Donatello-Crucifixion "Below the screen in the
same church, he made a wooden crucifix and asked
his close friend, Filippo Brunelleschi, for his
opinion. Filippo answered that it seemed to him
that Donatello had put on the cross the body of a
peasant, not the body of Jesus Christ. Donatello
retorted 'You get some wood and try to make one
yourself.' Filippo returned home and started work
on a crucifix."
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Andrea della Robbia (1435-1525)
Cappella Medici
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A wall monument to Niccolò Machiavelli, the
16th-century Florentine statesman and author
whose famous book The Prince was the perfect
practical manual for a powerful Renaissance ruler.
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Giovanni Da Milano, The Birth of the Virgin,
1365, fresco, Rinuccini Chapel, Santa Croce
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View of the Peruzzi and Bardi Chapels
Giotto Scenes from the Life of St John the
Evangelist. Cappella Peruzzi
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Scenes from the Life of Saint Francis, Death and
Ascension of St Francis, (detail), c.1325,
fresco, 280 x 450 cm, Bardi Chapel, Santa Croce
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Julie Clary Bonaparte (1771-1845) Queen Consort
of Naples, Queen Consort of Spain
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Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa, Italy on
February 15, 1564
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Umiliana de' Cerchi (n1219) beata nel 1634
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Architecture
Painting
Sculpture
Giorgio Vasari (Michelangelo's tomb) with
sculpture by Valerio Cioli, Giovanni Bandini, and
Battista Lorenzi. Way to Calvary painted by
Vasari
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The Basilica di Santa Croce is also one of the
finest museums in Italy. In the refectory in the
convent portion of the great church is an actual
museum, the Museo dell'Opera di Santa Croce that
was founded primarily as a memorial to those who
died in the 1966 River Arno flooding.
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A damaged work is the great Crucifix of Cimabue.
It was the major work of art lost in the flood
in Florence in 1966. Much of the paint from the
body and face washed away.
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The Museo dell'Opera di Santa Croce is housed
mainly in the refectory, also off the cloister.
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For the end wall of their refectory the
Franciscans commissioned Taddeo Gaddi to paint a
Last Supper, an appropriate subject for the
friars dining hall. Above the last Supper Gaddi
painted a Tree of Life, a devotional subject
derived from the writings of the Franciscan St
Bonaventure.
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Santa Croce Refectory. Last Supper, Tree of Life,
and Four Miracle Scenes.
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14th Century fresco 'The Last Supper' by Taddeo
Gaddi.
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Text Internet Pictures Daniela Iacob
Internet All copyrights belong to their
respective owners Presentation Sanda Foisoreanu
2011
Sound Gioachino Rossini Messa Di Gloria
Academy of St Martin in the Fields (Orchestra)