MEGA EPIC CHURCH WALKING TOUR

I'm even more proud of us, we went to MULTIPLE locations yesterday! WHAT WHOA SHIT. We decided to go see a billion churches, so we made a google map and plot a route. A ROUTE TO ADVENTURE.


First we went to Santissima Annunziata which is around the corner from our house. It had a beautiful portico with frescos by Pontormo, Rossolino and some others.




It's older than the Baroque but it was remodeled so a lot of it is high Baroque now.


It had a lot of really nice chapels in it, like this one that was all frescoed:


This one too, by Allessandro Alessio


This baroque chapel was definitely the best and most amazing.



Then we went down to the Cenacolo di S'Apollonia which really only had this famous last supper by Andrea del Castagno and a few other paintings that belonged to the monastery before they turned it into a one room museum. This room used to be the refectory.


Then we went to the Cenacolo di Fuligno, which is basically the same deal except it was a lot bigger and had some other better paintings. Their big refectory last supper is by Perugino but the ad a lot of lesser known artists' panel painting and quite a few Lorenzo di Credi's, who was a pretty great Leonardo follower. These rooms also used to be the Egyptian artifacts museum in Florence which is real random.


Next we went to Sant Maria Novella which is famous for a lot of things and you have to pay to get into. It was 7 euro for the both of us which is super lame. Anyway, here you can see Leon Battista Alberti's super duper famous facade, with those distinctive scrolls on the side.


La capella maggiore inside was breathtakingly beautiful It's frescoed by Ghirlandaio and at the time Michelangelo was apprenticing under him, so he ma have even worked on small details as well, but maybe not because he was only thirteen. Anyway Ghirlandaio is amazing and the chapel is gorgeous and so big and completely covered in this:


Masaccio's trinity is also here, which is really why they get to charge entrance fees. Ricardo really likes it, I don't think it's anything spectacular. But it's cool for being the first perfect one-point perspective of the Renaissance and Ricardo likes it for the skeleton at the bottom whose tombstone reads " remember you will one day be like me"


The stripedy nave.


Alberti's famous piazza design, with those crazy fat obelisks.


on the way to Santa Croce we tried to go to il Cencolo di Ognissanti and Santa Trinita but they're both really small and close at like, noon or one, so we were too late. This is Santa Trinita piazza which has a nice triumphal column and cool buildings.


This is Santa Trinita



The Salvatore Ferragamo museum/store.


We found a sore of plant market just past there! the plants were so beautiful and so so so cheap, I couldn't resist and I bought a beautiful little flower plant for 80 cents! we'll give away when we leave, but it's nice to have something to brighten up our apartment.


We passed by the market with this famous pig statue. You rib its nose and put a coin in its mouth which has to drop into the drawin below to ensure your return to Florence.


We finished up with Santa Croce, which is famous for how many famous people are buried there, but it was 5 euro to get in and we weren't sure if our class goes for free and we were tired so we resolved to check our syllabus and maybe come back on our own. But it has a nice facade!


anyway, today we're staying in all day and just going out for apertivo (buy a drink and get all you can eat from the buffet at a bar) because Ricardo's always dying to go to apertivo, bu tomorrow we're going to Pisa so we'll be back soon!