Luogo - Religious building

Basilica di Santa Maria del Carmine

Where Piazza del Carmine, 9-19, Firenze

The Basilica, famous for hosting the frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel, fundamental work of Renaissance art decorated by Masaccio and Masolino, is dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel. It was built in 1268 as part of a Carmelite convent which still exists today. The devastating fire of 1771 has destroyed almost the entire interior, and the rebuilding was entrusted to Giuseppe Ruggeri and Giulio Mannaioni. It was completed except for the facade (1775-1782). The interior has a nave with a Latin cross plant with five chapels on each side decorated with stucco and painted blades. The Brancacci Chapel is located at the south transept: preserves the frescoes by Masaccio and Masolino, and the thirteenth-century "Madonna of the People". The Main Chapel preserves, however, the monumental altar in colored marble, bronze and semi-precious stones, beneath which lie the remains of Blessed Angiolo Mazzinghi. In 1675, the Corsini family had built, in the left transept of the Church, a chapel dedicated to St. Andrea Corsini, entrusting the work to Silvani and the frescoes to Giordano ("St. Andrew Corsini's Glory "), with stucco by Giovan Battista Foggini. The large complex next to the Church was also subject, over the centuries, to numerous destructions and reconstructions. You enter the Monastery by the door to the right of the facade. The Cloister dates from 1597-1612 and is a square with rounded arches resting on stone columns, while the first floor there is a architraved lodge. The lunettes are decorated with seventeenth-eighteenth century frescoes by various authors. The hall of the Upper Room owes its name to the monumental "Last Supper" by Alessandro Allori (1582).

Risparmia sul tuo hotel - hotelscombined.it

Potrebbero interessarti