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The first of the guilds of Florence of which there is notice is the Arte di Calimala, the cloth-merchants' guild, mentioned in a document of about 1150. By 1193 there existed seven such corporate bodies, which each elected a council whose members bore the Roman-sounding designation consoli .
The eagle on a bolt of cloth, symbol of the Arte di Calimala. The Arte di Calimala, the guild of the cloth finishers and merchants in foreign cloth, was one of the greater guilds of Florence, the Arti Maggiori, who arrogated to themselves the civic power of the Republic of Florence during the Late Middle Ages. [1]
Coat of arms of the Arte della Lana, Andrea della Robbia, 1487, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo in Florence. Palazzo of the Arte della Lana next to Orsanmichele Miniature of a wool clothing shop from Biblioteca Casanatense. The Arte della Lana was the wool guild of Florence during the Late Middle Ages and in the Renaissance.
Orsanmichele's St. James the Major Tabernacle located on the southern façade of Orsanmichele, in Florence, is the tabernacle of The Guild of Furriers and Skinners (L’ Arte de Vaiai e Pellicciai The statue of St. James the Major (c. 1420), by Niccolò di Piero Lamberti , once occupied the niche but is now housed in the Museum of Orsanmichele.
The Signoria of Florence (Italian: "lordship") was the government of the medieval and Renaissance Republic of Florence, [1] between 1250 and 1532. Its nine members, the Priori , were chosen from the ranks of the guilds of the city: six of them from the major guilds, and two from the minor guilds.
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Replica in the niche. Saint Stephen is a 2.6 m high bronze statue of saint Stephen by Lorenzo Ghiberti, completed for the Arte della Lana guild in 1427–28.It is now in the Museo di Orsanmichele, although a replica fills its original niche on the exterior of Orsanmichele, where it was one of a cycle of fourteen sculptures, each showing the patron saint of one of the guilds of Florence.