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Santa Croce
The Largest Franciscan church in the world.
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Who are these?
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Pretend you know these people
BobSusan
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Today Bob and Susan are visiting Santa Croce
It is our job to tell them how to get around the church.
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• Susan still doesn’t really know anything about Santa Croce.
• Is there any information you know?
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• We start in the piazza.
•Looking at the church we tell Bob and Susan to walk straight.
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Santa Croce is built in gothic style.
• What is gothic style?
• Gothic is a style of architecture which developed in northern France and spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries. It is characterized by slender vertical piers and counterbalancing buttresses, cross vaultings and pointed arches.
Paris – Nôtre Dame Chartres – the Cathedral Milan – the Cathedral
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Rose-window
PinnacleDoor
Pointed arch
Bell-tower
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• The façade is made of white marble from Carrara, green marble from Prato and pink marble from Verona.
• There are three doors on the front of the church corresponding to the nave and the two aisles.
• On the left of the church there is a statue of Dante Alighieri.
•Dante is surrounded by four lions (symbolizing the Florentine Republic), one on each corner.
•It was placed here in 1865 on the occasion of the 600th anniversary of Dante’s birth.
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Façade of Santa Croce• The neo-gothic façade was installed between 1857-1863.• It was designed by Nicolò Matas, a jewish architect. He
added the star of David to the front of the church.
• Matas wanted to be buried inside the church with his peers but because he was Jewish he was buried under the porch, not within the walls of the church.
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Façade of Santa Crocebefore 1857
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The Bell-Tower• It was built in1842.• It replaced the old tower which was struck by lightning
and destroyed.
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Well, let’s enter!
• The inside is lined with octagonal columns
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Nave
Aisles
Apse
Octagonal columns
Chapels
Chapels
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Santa Croce
• The church is built in the shape of an Egyptian Tau Cross. This is the symbol of the Franciscan monks.
Roman cross Egyptian cross
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Santa CroceThe temple of the Italian glories
• Many famous Italians have tombs in Santa Croce.
Do you recognize any of these?
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… Galileo Galilei, Michelangelo, Niccolò Machiavelli.
Walking along the right aisle you can see: • the tombstone of Michelangelo by Giorgio Vasari (1570);• the cenotaph of Dante Alighieri (1829);• the tombstone of Vittorio Alfieri by Antonio Canova (1810);• the tombstone of Niccolò Machiavelli (1787);• the tombstone of Leonardo Bruni a Chancellor of the Florentine Republic by Bernardo
Rossellino (1450);• the tombstone of Gioacchino Rossini (1900);• the tombstone of Ugo Foscolo (1938) who, in his poem “i Sepolcri” spoke about these
famous tombstones in Santa Croce
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Walking back along the left aisle, to the exit of the church, you can see other funerary monuments, among which the most important ones are: •the monument to Leon Battista Alberti by Lorenzo Bartolini (at the first column); •the monument to Carlo Marsuppini secretary of the Florentine Republic by Desiderio da Settignano;•the monument to Vittorio Fossombroni a famous politician by Lorenzo Bartolini;•the monument to Galileo Galilei.
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The aisles of the church host many paintings, sculptures and key works.
pointed arches
Octagonal column
Stained glass window
trusses
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Giotto and Taddeo Gaddi in Santa Croce
Inside Santa Croce you can find famous chapels:• the Baroncelli chapel with frescoes by Taddeo Gaddi representing the life of the Virgin and a Polyptych by Giotto.
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• the Bardi chapel with frescoes by Giotto with scenes from the life of San Francesco; • the Peruzzi chapel with frescoes by Giotto representing scenes from the lives of Saint John the Baptist and Saint John the Evangelist.
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Outside Santa CroceThe Pazzi Chapel
The Pazzi family hired Brunelleschi to build a chapel in their honor in the cloister of Santa Croce.
The dome in the Pazzi chapel looks a lot like the dome Brunelleschi constructed for the Cathedral.
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Outside Santa CroceThe Opera Museum
In the “Cenacolo”, among masterpieces of the Middle Ages, you can find:• the huge fresco by Taddeo Gaddi representing the Holy Cross Tree;• the Crucifix by Cimabue which was greatly damaged by the Flood in 1966
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Cimabue’s Crucifix
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Flood of 1966• When the Arno flooded the water destroyed many
paintings in Santa Croce. It took decades to restore them.
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There is so much to do!
• There are so many things in Santa Croce that if you wanted to, you could spend an entire day there!
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Glossary