The church of Santa Maria del Carmine is a very famous church in Florence for the cycle of frescoes which decorate the walls of the chapel of the Florentine merchant Felice Brancacci who in 1423 commissioned Masolino da Panicale and his pupil Masaccio to carry out the work. Cappella Brancacci Florence The church was begun […]
Florence Monuments
The Chapel of the Magi in Palazzo Medici Riccardi
The Chapel of the Magi in palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence is a very secret and precious treasure-chamber fitted into the massive structures of Michelozzo’s building. The chapel had a religious function, it is actually located in the heart of the oldest Medici’s family residence in Florence, a space for private devotion, but at the […]
Ponte Vecchio, The Old Bridge in Florence
The name “Ponte Vecchio“, which means the “old bridge” derives from the fact that the bridge is the oldest in the city. Moreover, this bridge is the only one not destroyed by the German mines in World War II. The Ponte Vecchio crosses the Arno river at its narrowest point where, in Roman times, a […]