Santa Maria dei Candeli - Florence, Italy
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N 43° 46.424 E 011° 15.814
32T E 682169 N 4849232
Santa Maria dei Candeli is a former church situated in the Borgo Pinti in central Florence.
Waymark Code: WMJXZ9
Location: Toscana, Italy
Date Posted: 01/14/2014
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"Santa Maria dei Candeli is a former church situated in the Borgo Pinti in central Florence.
Initially founded in 13–14th centuries as a convent; the present structure was enlarged starting 1558, with a radical rebuilding in 1703 by the Baroque artist Giovanni Battista Foggini. The ceiling is frescoed with the Assumption by Niccolò Lapi, the right wall houses a St. Clair by Francesco Botti and a St. Augustine by Jacopo Vignali. The main altarpiece is an Immaculate Conception by Carlo Sacconi, flanked by a Transit with St. Joseph by Tommaso Redi.
The monastic order was suppressed by the Napoleonic occupation, and became successively an orphanage, an asylum, and finally a lyceum for training policemen. Renaissance frescoes detached from the refectory depict a Last supper, Annunciation, and Adoration of the Bambino, formerly attributed to Franciabigio, but which some now attribute to Giovanni Antonio Sogliani."
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