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The Florence Baptistery, also known as the Baptistery of Saint John (Italian: Battistero di San Giovanni), is a religious building in Florence, Italy.Dedicated to the patron saint of the city, John the Baptist, it has been a focus of religious, civic, and artistic life since its completion.
Overview. The Mosaic ceiling of the Florence Baptistery is a set of mosaics covering the internal dome and apses of the Baptistery of Florence.It is one of the most important cycles of medieval Italian mosaics, created between 1225 and around 1330 using designs by major Florentine painters such as Cimabue, Coppo di Marcovaldo, Meliore and the Master of the Magdalen, probably by mosaicists from ...
The North Doors of the Florence Baptistery were made by Lorenzo Ghiberti between 1403 and 1424 and represent his first masterpiece, before the celebrated Gates of Paradise. The work is signed in the center, above the panels of the Nativity and the Adoration of the Magi: “ OPVS LAUREN/TII•FLOREN/TINI .”
Ospedale di San Giovanni di Dio: 1702–1735: Carlo Marcellini: Church of San Giorgio alla Costa: 1705: Giovan Battista Foggini: Interior of Santa Felicita: 1736–1739: Ferdinando Ruggieri: Triumphal arch: 1738–1740: Jean Nicholas Jadot: Biblioteca Marucelliana: 1748–1752: Alessandro Dori: Rondò of Palazzo Pitti: 1765 and 1783-99
Piazza del Duomo and Piazza San Giovanni, Florence South view from Giotto's bell. Piazza del Duomo (English: "Cathedral Square") is located in the heart of the historic center of Florence (Tuscany, Italy). It is one of the most visited places in Europe and the world and in Florence, the most visited area of the city. [1]
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Fra 'Giovanni da Salerno (1735), cloister of Santa Maria Novella, Florence; Arcangelo Raffaello and San Giovanni di Dio, at the di soccorrere un povero (1738), Ospedale di San Giovanni di Dio, Florence; Gloria di San Giovanni Battista , Baptistery of St. John the Baptist, preserved in the Museo dell’Opera del Dumomo
He was born into a noble family of Florence, with an independent income. Rustici profited from study of the Medici sculpture in the garden at San Marco, and according to Giorgio Vasari , Lorenzo de' Medici placed him in the studio of Verrocchio , [ 4 ] and that after Verrocchio's departure for Venice, he placed himself with Leonardo da Vinci ...