Outside this building, there are two obelisks mounted on bronze turtles designed by Giambologna, which stand in an opensquare market that was the site of an annual chariot race.
Outside this building, there are two obelisks mounted on bronze turtles designed by Giambologna, which stand in an opensquare market that was the site of an annual chariot race. Michelangelo may have helped Ghirlandaio paint two sets of frescoesdepicting the lives of Mary and John the Baptist on opposite walls of this church's Tornabuoni Chapel. Brunelleschi carved anotable wooden CruciÂfix for this church's Gondi Chapel in response to Donatello's crude Crucifix at Santa Croce. The mostfamous work in this church supposedly has a representation of Adam's tomb in its lowest section, which shows a skeleton lyingin a sarcophagus carved with the memento mori: "I was what you are and what I am you will be." Before being moved to theUzi, Duccio's Rucellai Madonna was originally painted for this church, which also has Giotto's painted CruciÂx hangingfrom the center of the nave. This church's best-known fresco shows Christ's cruciÂfixion in a trompe l'oeil barrel vault. Thischurch was the home of the fiÂrst painting in Western art to use full perspective. For 10 points, name this Dominican basilicain Florence that houses Masaccio's Holy Trinity.
Outside this building, there are two obelisks mounted on bronze turtles designed by Giambologna, which stand in an opensquare market that was the site of an annual chariot race.
Santa Maria Novella