Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Sights
1
Museo Marino Marini
ART GALLERY
The deconsecrated Chiesa di San Pancrazio hosts this small art museum displaying sculp-
tures, portraits and drawings by the Pistoia-born sculptor Marino Marini (1901-80). But
what really stuns is the superbly restored
Cappella Rucellai
and the tiny scale copy of
Christ's Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem - a Renaissance gem by Leon Battista Alberti - that
it contains.
(Piazza San Pancrazio 1; adult/reduced €4/2;
10am-5pm Wed-Sat & Mon)
2
Chiesa di Santa Trìnita
Built in Gothic style and later given a Mannerist facade, this 14th-century church shelters
fine frescoes including Lorenzo Monaco's
Annunciation
(1422) in the
Cappella
Salimbenes/Bartholini
and frescoes (1483-85) by Ghirlandaio depicting the life of St
Francis of Assisi in the
Cappella Sassetti,
to the right of the altar. The latter feature por-
traits of illustrious Florentines of the time.
(Piazza Santa Trìnita;
CHURCH
8am-noon & 4-5.45pm Mon-Sat,
8-10.45am & 4-5.45pm Sun)
3
Chiesa d'Ognissanti
CHURCH
This 13th-century church, built as part of a Benedictine monastery, showcases Domenico
Ghirlandaio's fresco of the
Madonna della Misericordia
protecting members of the
Vespucci family, the church's main patrons. Amerigo Vespucci, the Florentine navigator
who gave his name to the American continent, is supposed to be the young boy whose
head peeks between the Madonna and the old man.
(Borgo d'Ognissanti 42;
7am-12.30pm &
4-8pm Mon-Sat, 4-8pm Sun)
