Firenze Orsanmichele The Kitchen Garden of St. Michael

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Firenze
Orsanmichele
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Orsanmichele
Orsanmichele (or "Kitchen Garden of St. Michael",
from the contraction in Tuscan dialect of the
Italian word orto) is a church in the heart of
Florence. The building was constructed on the
site of the kitchen garden of the monastery of
San Michele, now gone.
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The church was originally built as a grain market
in 1337 by Francesco Talenti, Neri di Fioravante,
and Benci di Cione.
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Between 1380 and 1404 it was converted into a
church used as the chapel of Florence's powerful
craft and trade guilds.
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On the ground floor of the square building are
the 13th century arches that originally formed
the loggia of the grain market.
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The second floor was devoted to offices, while
the third housed one of the city's municipal
grain storehouses, maintained to withstand famine
or siege
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Late in the 14th century, the guilds were charged
by the city to commission statues of their patron
saints to embellish the facades of the church.
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Today, all of the original sculptures have been
removed and replaced with modern duplicates to
protect them from the elements and vandalism
San Luca 1601 Gianbologna (magistrates and
notaries)
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The facades held 14 architecturally designed
external niches, which were filled from 1399 to
around 1430.
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The facades held 14 architecturally designed
external niches, which were filled from 1399 to
around 1430. The three richest guilds opted to
make their figures in the far more costly bronze,
which cost approximately ten times the amount of
the stone figures
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St. Eligius 1411-15 Nanni di Banco (farriers)
Christ and St. Thomas 1467-83 Andrea del
Verrocchio (merchants)
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Palazzo del Arte dela Lana, a wonderful building
near Orsanmichele
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Virgin and Child 1399 Simone di Ferrucci
(doctors and apothecaries)
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St. Peter 1415 Ciuffagni (butchers)
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St. Mark 1411 Donatello (linen-weavers and
peddlers)
St. John the Evangelist 1514 Baccio da Montelupo
(silk merchants)
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St. James 1415 Niccolò di Piero Lamberti
(furriers)
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Inside the church is Andrea Orcagna's bejeweled
Gothic Tabernacle (1355-59) encasing a repainting
by Bernardo Daddi's of an older icon of the
'Madonna and Child
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Text Internet Pictures Daniela Iacob
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Foisoreanu
2011
Sound Ave Maria Andrea Bocelli