Santa Croce Museum
Santa Croce Museum
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Piazza Santa Croce, Piazza di Santa Croce, 50122 Firenze, Italia
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The museum winds its way through a series of monumental rooms that are part of the basilica complex. The famous Pazzi Chapel (named for the family that commissioned it and which in 1478 was involved in the famous anti-Medici Pazzi conspiracy) opens onto the first fourteenth century cloister. The harmonious, elegant design was the work of Brunelleschi and it is decorated both inside and out with glazed terracottas by Lucca della Robbia; in the past the chapel was used as the chapter room. In what was once the refectory, the back wall is filled with a Last Supper by Taddeo Gaddi that is surmounted by the Tree of the Cross. This room also houses other masterpieces such as the Cimabue Crucifix that was severely damaged by the 1966 flood, Donatello’s St. Louis from the church of Orsanmichele and some fragments of frescoes by Orcagna that were originally inside the church (Triumph of Death). In the other rooms we can also admire stained glass windows from Giotto’s circle and a funerary monument by Tino di Camaino. The second cloister, built in the fifteenth century, was clearly inspired by Brunelleschi.
museums
Piazza Santa Croce, Piazza di Santa Croce, 50122 Firenze, Italia
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The museum winds its way through a series of monumental rooms that are part of the basilica complex. The famous Pazzi Chapel (named for the family that commissioned it and which in 1478 was involved in the famous anti-Medici Pazzi conspiracy) opens onto the first fourteenth century cloister. The harmonious, elegant design was the work of Brunelleschi and it is decorated both inside and out with glazed terracottas by Lucca della Robbia; in the past the chapel was used as the chapter room. In what was once the refectory, the back wall is filled with a Last Supper by Taddeo Gaddi that is surmounted by the Tree of the Cross. This room also houses other masterpieces such as the Cimabue Crucifix that was severely damaged by the 1966 flood, Donatello’s St. Louis from the church of Orsanmichele and some fragments of frescoes by Orcagna that were originally inside the church (Triumph of Death). In the other rooms we can also admire stained glass windows from Giotto’s circle and a funerary monument by Tino di Camaino. The second cloister, built in the fifteenth century, was clearly inspired by Brunelleschi.