Cloister of San Lorenzo

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Cloister
Church of San Lorenzo
Piazza San Lorenzo
Vicenza, May 2025

“The original cloister, built in the first half of the fourteenth century, was lost and replaced by the current one at the end of the fifteenth century, in elegant classical-Renaissance forms. In the centre of the courtyard, a Gothic wellhead from the second half of the fourteenth century was placed in the last century, which bears the coat of arms of the Loschi family on its four sides. On the northern side, under the portico surmounted by the convent cells, the chapter house opens up, flanked by two beautiful late thirteenth-century mullioned windows with elegant white marble columns, inserted into pointed Gothic arches. Also under the portico, on the eastern and western sides, numerous tombstones, statues and funerary urns belonging to different centuries, collected when, in the nineteenth century, it was decided to make San Lorenzo the city temple.” (Church of San Lorenzo, Wikipedia)

Chiostro di Sant'Antonino

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Chiostro (Cloister)
Basilica di Sant'Antonino (Basilica of St. Antoninus)
Piazza Sant'Antonino
Piacenza, May 2024

“The beautiful Cloister of our basilica opens on the right side of the church. It was built in 1483 in Renaissance style in place of an older medieval cloister, but the current layout is due to the intervention of the architect Giulio Ulisse Arata in the 1930s. In particular, the side of the cloister towards the basilica was rebuilt following the model of the other two ancient sides, after the demolition of the baroque chapels that existed at the time. It has three porticoed sides with cross vaults and a series of capitals above the columns, all different from each other. They have the shape of an inverted bell: some are decorated with acanthus leaves; others have simple lanceolate leaves with smooth edges; still others are adorned with festoons. On the garden side, many capitals feature the coat of arms of the martyr Antonino or the dice emblem of Piacenza. The fourth side to the south was demolished to create a passage between the square and the church of S. Vincenzo. In its place there is a simple wall with a door that allows the connection with the outside. The central space, almost square, is green with an octagonal well in the center.” (The cloister, Basilica of St. Antonino)

Cloister of Sant'Apollonia

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Former cloister of Sant'Apollonia
Via Santa Reparata
Florence, December 2022

“Sant'Apollonia was a former Benedictine convent, founded in 1339, just north of the center of Florence, in Italy. Some of the remaining structures are demarcated on three sides by via Ventisette Aprile, via Santa Reparata, and Via San Gallo, located about a block west of Piazza San Marco, just north of the city center. The structures of the convent, suppressed since the 19th-century, are now put to different uses. The small church building is still present on the corner of Via Ventisette Aprile and San Gallo.” (Sant'Apollonia, Wikipedia)

Cloisters of Sant'Ambrogio

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Cloisters of Sant'Ambrogio, designed by Bramante in 1497
Università Cattolica (Catholic University)
Milan, May 2018

“When it became the seat of Cattolica, Father Gemelli entrusted the restoration Giovanni Muzio (who also designed the Triennale di Milano), who worked for about twenty years, from 1928 to late forties, also passing through the destruction caused by the bombing of August 1943 and the subsequent reconstruction. Notable is the restoration of the cloisters by Bramante; century refectory of the former became Great Hall, where he wanted to, on the Brera, the wall fresco by Callisto Piazza (1545) inspired by the Wedding at Cana, the library and chapel, with modulated by high walls sculptures Manzù.” (Cloisters of Sant'Ambrogio, Wikipedia)

Cloister of St Andrew

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Chiostro di Sant'Andrea (Cloister of St Andrew)
Vico Dritto di Ponticello
Genoa, April 2016