Santa Maria Novella, Florence

  • Caption
    Angled Front View
    Date
    00/00/00 (creation)
Related person
Leon Battista Alberti (architect)
Date
1278-1350 (church); 1456-1470 (facade)
Description
"Designed by Fra Sisto and Fra Ristoro as a Latin cross of great size with transepts, chapels, and beautiful cloisters. The nave has no triforium, but a low clear-storey with circular windows and a ribbed vault." --Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture, p.748. Leon Battista Alberti designed the (unfinished) Renaissance period facade. Keywords: Italy, Firenze, ceremonial and/or religious structures, drawings, elevations, plans, Italian, s., sta. Submitted by Jacqueline Gargus for ARCH 601: History of Architecture.
Style/Period
15th Century (1400 - 1499 CE)
Renaissance