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Building Date Architect Notes Church of Santa Trinita: 1250–1380: Santa Maria Novella and convent: 1278–1360: Fra' Sisto da Firenze and Fra' Ristoro da Campi: Belltower of Badia Fiorentina: c. 1285: Arnolfo di Cambio: Basilica of Santa Croce and convent: from 1294: Arnolfo di Cambio (attribution) and others: Cathedral of Santa Maria del ...
It is one of the oldest buildings in the city, built between 1059 and 1128. The architecture is in Florentine Romanesque style. Museo dell'Opera del Duomo: in front of the Florence Cathedral, it is committed to the conservation of the Duomo and other art works. It stores great masterpieces of Michelangelo, Donatello, Lorenzo Ghiberti, Luca ...
The Bargello, also known as the Palazzo del Bargello or Palazzo del Popolo ("Palace of the People"), is a former public building and police headquarters, later a prison, in Florence, Italy. Mostly built in the 13th century, since 1865 it has housed the Museo Nazionale del Bargello , a national art museum.
Giotto's bell tower seen from the top of the Duomo. View from the tower. Giotto's Campanile (/ ˌ k æ m p ə ˈ n iː l i,-l eɪ /, also US: / ˌ k ɑː m-/, Italian: [kampaˈniːle]) is a free-standing campanile (bell tower) that is part of the complex of buildings that make up Florence Cathedral on the Piazza del Duomo in Florence, Italy.
Palazzo Vecchio by night. The Palazzo Vecchio (Italian pronunciation: [paˈlattso ˈvɛkkjo] "Old Palace") is the town hall of Florence, Italy.It overlooks the Piazza della Signoria, which holds a copy of Michelangelo's David statue, and the gallery of statues in the adjacent Loggia dei Lanzi.
The 14th-century Palazzo Vecchio is still preeminent with its crenellated tower. The square is also shared with the Loggia della Signoria, the Uffizi Gallery, the Palace of the Tribunale della Mercanzia (1359) (now the Bureau of Agriculture), and the Palazzo Uguccioni (1550, with a facade attributed to Raphael, who however died thirty years before its construction).
Night. Night is a sculpture in marble (155x150 cm, maximum length 194 cm diagonally) by Michelangelo Buonarroti. Dating from 1526 to 1531, it is part of the decoration of the New Sacristy and part of an allegory of the four parts of a day. It is situated on the left of the sarcophagus of the tomb of Giuliano di Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Nemours.
Piazza Santa Croce is one of the main plazas or squares located in the central neighbourhood of Florence, in the region of Tuscany, Italy.It is located near Piazza della Signoria and the National Central Library, and takes its name from the Basilica of Santa Croce that overlooks the square.