In 2011, I incorporated a number of pix from the Spanish Chapel in the Santa Maria Novella post,
http://roadeveron.blogspot.it/2011/06/santa-maria-novella.html. Understandably, since the chapel is a side-bar, off the cloister, from the main church. It's where the Spanish courtiers gathered. Anyhow, the frescoes covering its walls and ceiling are by Andrea di Bonauti, done between 1365-1370, and they are some of the most striking and complex of all, celebrating, mostly, the Dominicans. Here are a few in addition to what I posted in 2011.
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First, possibly, a correction of something I posted in 2011:
starting at the left, the guy in the brown cloak is Cimabue,
Giotto's teacher; Giotto is next to him, in profile, in the green
hood; further right, in purple, holding a book, Boccaccio;
above him, in white hood, is Petrarch; further right of him,
in white cap, is Dante; yes, this will be on the quiz |
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The Florence Duomo...but wait...this representation has
flying buttresses...it was painted from a model of what the
under-construction church would look like; as observed
elsewhere, though they have their share of Gothic churches,
the Florentines thought flying buttresses unsightly and
avoided them |
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From the opposite wall, which is all about
St. Thomas stomping on infidels, heretics,
et al., here is Aristotle, representing philosophy |
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| And from the ceiling, St. Lunkerus, patron saint of fly fisherman |
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After Santa Maria Novella, we did our obligatory visit to the
market |
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And, on the way to Santa Croce, stopped by
the Orsanmichelle; here, Donatello's St. Mark
(or possibly St. Matthew, St. Luke, or St.
John; or possibly someone else) |
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