Roman Catholic
Roman or Romans most often refers to:
*Rome, the capital city of Italy
*Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD
*Roman people, the people of ancient Rome
*'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lette ...
church, located in the Piazza of the same name, just off the Via Por Santa Maria, near the
Ponte Vecchio
The Ponte Vecchio ("Old Bridge", ) is a Middle Ages, medieval stone closed-spandrel Circular segment, segmental arch bridge over the Arno River, in Florence, Italy, Florence, Italy. The only bridge in Florence spared from destruction during the ...
, in
Florence
Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico an ...
, region of Tuscany,
Italy
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. The church is presently used as a concert hall.
History
The church was originally constructed in the 11th and 12th century in a Romanesque style with a polychrome marble facade. The interior featured three aisles. In the 14th century, the exterior was renovated. Of the original facade, only the marble work around the portal remains. Between 1631 and 1655, the interior of the church was renovated to convert the three aisles to an open hall. A crypt was added and the interior was redesigned to include a choir.
In 1373, the church was temporarily used by
Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio (, , ; 16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian people, Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanism, Renaissance humanist. Born in the town of Certaldo, he became so we ...
to deliver lectures on the
Divine Comedy
The ''Divine Comedy'' ( it, Divina Commedia ) is an Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun 1308 and completed in around 1321, shortly before the author's death. It is widely considered the pre-eminent work in Italian literature and ...
.
The annexed
diocesan museum
A diocesan museum is a museum for an ecclesiastical diocese, a geographically-based division of the Christian Church.
Austria:
* Diocesan Museum, Graz, Styria
* Gurk Treasury, Carinthia
* Diocesan Museum, Linz, Upper Austria
* Cathedral Mus ...
houses a panel with a ''Madonna'' by
Giotto
Giotto di Bondone (; – January 8, 1337), known mononymously as Giotto ( , ) and Latinised as Giottus, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages. He worked during the Gothic/Proto-Renaissance period. Giot ...
. Inside the church are artworks by
Matteo Rosselli
Matteo Rosselli (10 August 1578 – 18 January 1650) was an Italian painter of the late Florentine Counter- Mannerism and early Baroque. He is best known however for his highly populated grand-manner historical paintings.
Biography
He first app ...
(''Vision of San Lorenzo'');
Niccolò Lapi
Niccolò Lapi (Florence, c. 1667–1732) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Tuscany.
He is described as a follower of Giordano,Giottino; Mariotto di Nardo; Ferdinando Tacca (bronze bas-relief of ''Martyrdom of San Stefano'', 1656);
Francesco Bianchi Buonavita
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People with the given name Francesco
* Francesco I (disambiguation), sever ...
;
Cigoli
Lodovico Cardi (21 September 1559 – 8 June 1613), also known as Cigoli, was an Italian painter and architect of the late Mannerist and early Baroque period, trained and active in his early career in Florence, and spending the last nine years ...
(Copy of
Santi di Tito
Santi di Tito (5 December 1536 – 25 July 1603) was one of the most influential and leading Italian painters of the proto-Baroque style – what is sometimes referred to as "Counter-Maniera" or Counter-Mannerism.
Biography
He was born in Flor ...
's ''Deposition''); Francesco Curradi (''Death of Santa Cecilia before Urban I'', 1641);
Francesco Morosini
Francesco Morosini (26 February 1619 – 16 January 1694) was the Doge of Venice from 1688 to 1694, at the height of the Great Turkish War. He was one of the many Doges and generals produced by the noble Venetian family of Morosini.Encyclopæd ...
(''St Paul on Road to Tarsus'');
Mauro Soderini
Mauro Soderini (1704 – after 1739/1751) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque period, mainly painting sacred subjects and active in his native Florence.
He studied in Bologna and Rome. In Florence he worked with Vincenzo Meucci and Giovan ...
(''St Zanobi resuscitates a child'', 1745), and
Santi di Tito
Santi di Tito (5 December 1536 – 25 July 1603) was one of the most influential and leading Italian painters of the proto-Baroque style – what is sometimes referred to as "Counter-Maniera" or Counter-Mannerism.
Biography
He was born in Flor ...