OBSERVATIONAL EXCURSION: Renaissance in the decoration of churches and cathedrals.

Renaissance in the design of churches and cathedrals.

Tours of Florence are exclusively pedestrian, due to the restrictions on transport to the historic zone of the city, where most of the sights are concentrated.

Florence begins to gather adherents of the humanist movement, thinkers and artists, who through their own works openly express the thoughts, feelings and views of their contemporaries.

In the language of the works of the Florentine literati of the XIV century Dante Alighieri and Boccaccio spoke the famous political and cultural figures of the city-republic.

In the period of the Medici dynasty from 1434 young talents and renowned figures of culture and art come to Florence to study and work. Under the patronage of Cosimo de’ Medici, schools, academies and workshops are opened. The Academy of Plato, founded in 1462, became the spiritual centre of the new European culture.

In the Renaissance period, the following artists and architects worked in the city-public: Giotto di Bondone, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Sandro Botticelli, Filippo Brunelleschi, Leonardo da Vinci and others.

Florence was one of the first sites included in the UNESCO heritage list, where to this day a third of the world’s important works of art are concentrated.

On this tour you will visit:

  • The Church of Santa Maria Novella – located in the square of the same name. It was built in the XIV-XV centuries, becoming the first basilica in Florence, and soon became the main Dominican church of the city. The building combines elements of Gothic and early Renaissance architecture, inside there are valuable works of art: altars, tombstones, frescoes by the school of Domenico Ghirlandaio, where Michelangelo studied, works by Brunelleschi, Mazaccio, Giotto, Filippino Lippi (visits are possible).
  • The Church of San Marco is the common name for the complex consisting of St Mark’s Church and convent, now converted into a museum. Located in St Mark’s Square, it contains the most valuable works of Beato Angelico, Fra Bartolomeo, Domenico Ghirlandaio.
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