The Basilica of Santa Maria Novella is located in Florence, Italy. It was built in the beginning of 1246 as a Dominican Church. It received its name because the site on which it is located was the church of Santa Maria delle Vigne in the ninth-century. The word Novella Translates to ‘New’ thus translating to ‘The New Santa Maria’ The Church was designed by several friars, the first being Fra Ristoro da Campi and Fra Sisto Fiorentino. Santa Maria Novella is made up of various additions and considerable remodelling. Because of this collaboration over the years, the Church houses some of the most famous art and Renaissance architecture.
Being built from the 1200s ‘modern’ methods of construction where not accessible. Santa Maria Novella was …show more content…
These cloisters where decorated with detailed frescoes with scenes from the old testament as well as the lives of the Dominican saints. INTERIOR
Inside the Church, the entire floor is tiled with white and black marble. The plan itself resembles that of a Latin cross. A large central corridor, consisting of a main nave and two side aisles, with two smaller cubicles branching off just before the minister would stand and deliver their sermon. The pillars that divide the aisles provide support to the black and white arches of the groin vaulted ceiling.
The first thing one is drawn to look at when entering the Santa Maria Novella is a large Crucifix suspended above the nave from the ceiling. Created in the fourteenth century by Giotto. Floating on the second column on the left is a marble pulpit designed by Filippo Brunelleschi which would have been used as an elevated place to read the Gospel to the congregation.
A number of marble tombs are placed along the edges of the church walls. Some of the buried include; Joseph: the patriarch of Constantinople, Dominican bishop Aldobrandino Cavalcanti and the largest tomb being that of Antonio Strozzi. He rests in black marble coffin in front of a white marble statue populated with statues of Mary and
Being built from the 1200s ‘modern’ methods of construction where not accessible. Santa Maria Novella was …show more content…
These cloisters where decorated with detailed frescoes with scenes from the old testament as well as the lives of the Dominican saints. INTERIOR
Inside the Church, the entire floor is tiled with white and black marble. The plan itself resembles that of a Latin cross. A large central corridor, consisting of a main nave and two side aisles, with two smaller cubicles branching off just before the minister would stand and deliver their sermon. The pillars that divide the aisles provide support to the black and white arches of the groin vaulted ceiling.
The first thing one is drawn to look at when entering the Santa Maria Novella is a large Crucifix suspended above the nave from the ceiling. Created in the fourteenth century by Giotto. Floating on the second column on the left is a marble pulpit designed by Filippo Brunelleschi which would have been used as an elevated place to read the Gospel to the congregation.
A number of marble tombs are placed along the edges of the church walls. Some of the buried include; Joseph: the patriarch of Constantinople, Dominican bishop Aldobrandino Cavalcanti and the largest tomb being that of Antonio Strozzi. He rests in black marble coffin in front of a white marble statue populated with statues of Mary and