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The Basilica di San Lorenzo (Basilica of St. Lawrence) is one of the largest churches of Florence, Italy, situated at the centre of the main market district of the city, and it is the burial place of all the principal members of the Medici family from Cosimo il Vecchio to Cosimo III.
Basilica of Santa Croce and convent: from 1294: Arnolfo di Cambio (attribution) and others: Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore: 1296–1421: Arnolfo di Cambio, Francesco Talenti and others: Palazzo Vecchio (first phase) 1299–1314: Arnolfo di Cambio: Porta San Niccolò: 1324: Porta Romana: 1326: Church of San Francesco (Fiesole) from 1330 ...
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 ...
The Basilica of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini ("Saint John of the Florentines") is a minor basilica and a titular church in the Ponte rione of Rome, Italy.. Dedicated to St. John the Baptist, the protector of Florence, the new church for the Florentine community in Rome was started in the 16th century and completed in the early 18th, and is the national church of Florence in Rome.
The Basilica di Santa Croce (Italian for 'Basilica of the Holy Cross') is a minor basilica and the principal Franciscan church of Florence, Italy. It is situated on the Piazza di Santa Croce , about 800 metres southeast of the Duomo , on what was once marshland beyond the city walls.
Italian Renaissance Architecture: from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo. London: Thames and Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-27921-2. Montrésor, Carlo (2000). The Opera del Duomo, Museum in Florence. Mandragora. Tacconi, Marica S. (2005). Cathedral and Civic Ritual in Late Medieval and Renaissance Florence: The Service Books of Santa Maria del Fiore ...
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In ancient Italy, basilicas began as large, covered buildings near city centers, adjacent to the forum, often at the opposite end from a temple.The building's form gradually came to be rectangular, covered with a post-and-lintel roof over an open hall flanked by columns and aisles extending from one end to the other, with entrances on the long sides, one of which would often be the side facing ...