Luogo - Historical building

Ospedale degli Innocenti

Where Via della Colonna, Firenze

The Spedale degli Innocenti was the old city orphanage, overlooking Piazza Santissima Annunziata, on a staircase. The abandoned children could be deposed in the "wheel", a sort of basin similar to a font set on the porch. Today, houses two kindergartens, three homes for the reception of foster children and mothers in need. In the gallery above the porch is a small Museum of the works of art collected over the centuries, with frescoes and works by Sandro Botticelli, Luca della Robbia, and other artists. The outside porch, by Brunelleschi, is composed of nine bays with ribbed vaults and arches resting on stone columns, white plaster, with the chiaroscuro effect characteristic of Florentine Renaissance. The reliefs in glazed terracotta white and blue, with the famous cherubs, are not contemporary to Philip, but were added in 1487 by Andrea della Robbia, instead of the empty slots. The current round is characterized by the presence of the figure of an infant in swaddling clothes, which became the Hospital's symbol. The interior spaces, arranged with great care, were a model for all subsequent hospital buildings: an area for men and one for women, with a long cloister realized by Brunelleschi with Ionic columns. The Hospital's Church is accessed from the porch to the side of the wheel and was dedicated to Santa Maria degli Innocenti, then renovated by Fallani and Pacini, who frescoed the vault with "Moses's Finding".

 
 
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