San Francesco Di Paola Di Firenze
San Francesco di Paola is a small Renaissance architecture, Renaissance-style Roman Catholic church in the Oltrarno quarter of Florence, central Italy. History It was built starting from the 1580s as part of a new monastery of the Minim (religious order), Minims, known as the ''Convento del Bel Riposo''. The church was dedicated to the founder of the order, St. Francis of Paola. The structure was completed, with the financial patronage of Alessandro Cammillo degli Strozzi, a member of the Strozzi family, around 1643, including interventions by architect Gherardo Silvani in 1638. Silvani, Giovanni Caccini, and Valerio Cioli contributed to the sculptural and stucco decoration of the church. When the Minims were suppressed at the end of the 18th century, the annexed convent was turned into a patrician villa by the Federighi family in 1873. The church, restored in 1996-2005, is now a local parish church along with the nearby San Vito e Modesto a Bellosguardo. The main work of art is a ...
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