Thursday, August 18, 2022

Santa Maria Novella

Basilica of Santa Maria Novella, Piazza di Santa Maria Novella, Florence

Basilica of Santa Maria Novella
Piazza di Santa Maria Novella
Florence, December 2021

“Santa Maria Novella is a church in Florence, Italy, situated opposite, and lending its name to, the city's main railway station. Chronologically, it is the first great basilica in Florence, and is the city's principal Dominican church. The church, the adjoining cloister, and chapter house contain a multiplicity of art treasures and funerary monuments. Especially famous are frescoes by masters of Gothic and early Renaissance. They were financed by the most important Florentine families, who ensured themselves funerary chapels on consecrated ground.” (Santa Maria Novella, Wikipedia)

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