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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 .”
San Barnaba; San Carlo dei Lombardi; Santa Croce, Florence (Basilica di Santa Croce di Firenze) Sant'Egidio; San Filippo Neri; San Gaetano; San Giovanni di Dio; San Giovannino dei Cavalieri; San Giovannino degli Scolopi; San Giuseppe; San Jacopo tra Fossi (Evangelical Methodist Church of Florence) [1] San Lorenzo; Santa Lucia; San Marco; Santa ...
Badia di San Salvatore: 10th century: Scandicci: Badia Fiorentina: 10th century and 1282–1335: Church of Santi Apostoli: 10-11th century: Baptistery of San Giovanni: 11th-14th century: Church of San Miniato al Monte: 1018–1207: Cathedral of Fiesole: 1024–1028: Fiesole: Badia Fiesolana: 1025–1028: Fiesole: Church of San Salvatore al ...
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The place included the Bishop's palace, the Baptistery of San Giovanni, a hospital, a parsonage, a graveyard, and three churches: Salvatore al Vescovo, San Michele Visdomini and Santa Reparata. The main point within the sacred axis was Santa Reparata, a sacral building of paleo-Christian origin which was probably the first construction of this ...
He later became an apprentice of Mino di Giovanni, about 1300, and worked with him on the sculpture for S. Maria della Spina at Pisa and elsewhere. He produced his main works in Florence . It is assumed that Giotto di Bondone was eventually more influential on his style than his earlier teacher.