The main entrance door to the church of Santa Cruce in Florence Italy
The main entrance door to the church of Santa Cruce in Florence Italy The Gothic church built in 1294 has an airy interior and is enhanced by frescoes of Giotto and his gifted pupil Taddeo Gaddi The Arnolfo and Brunelleschi cloisters provide visitors with fine examples of renaissance architecture The church house the tombs of Michelangelo Machiavelli Lorenzo Ghiberti Galileo Leonardo Bruni The facade was reclad in marble in 1863 and paid for by an English Benefactor Francis Sloane The Donatellos crucifix is found in the Bardi di Vernio chapel and the neo gothic caminile was rebuilt in 1842 after it was destroyed by lightening some 300years earlier in 1512
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