Bigallo Museum
Bigallo Museum
museums
Piazza di San Giovanni, 1, 50129 Firenze, Italia
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At the corner of Piazza San Giovanni and Via Calzaiuoli is the graceful Loggia del Bigallo. It is named for the confraternity, founded in the XIII century that cared for orphans and had its headquarters here. The small, but interesting museum is housed in several rooms adjacent to the Loggia and showcases religious art related to the confraternity’s calling. The most famous painting is the Madonna della Misericordia (Our Lady of Mercy) by B. Daddi. It has the oldest view of Florence the way it looked in the middle of the fourteenth century. We can also admire the thirteenth century Crucifix by Maestro del Bigallo, a triptych by B. Daddi of the Virgin and Child with Saints, a Virgin and Child by Arnoldi and a group of fresco fragments and sinopias from the fourteenth century.
museums
Piazza di San Giovanni, 1, 50129 Firenze, Italia
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At the corner of Piazza San Giovanni and Via Calzaiuoli is the graceful Loggia del Bigallo. It is named for the confraternity, founded in the XIII century that cared for orphans and had its headquarters here. The small, but interesting museum is housed in several rooms adjacent to the Loggia and showcases religious art related to the confraternity’s calling. The most famous painting is the Madonna della Misericordia (Our Lady of Mercy) by B. Daddi. It has the oldest view of Florence the way it looked in the middle of the fourteenth century. We can also admire the thirteenth century Crucifix by Maestro del Bigallo, a triptych by B. Daddi of the Virgin and Child with Saints, a Virgin and Child by Arnoldi and a group of fresco fragments and sinopias from the fourteenth century.