Basilica di Santa Trinita
Romanesque-origin basilica with a restrained Mannerist facade and a chapel of vivid Renaissance frescoes inside.
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This guide to the Basilica di Santa Trinita in Florence traces how a Medici banker's chapel ended up here instead of at a rival church: turned away by the Dominican friars of Santa Maria Novella in the 1470s, Francesco Sassetti brought his commission to the monks of Santa Trinita instead. You'll hear about Domenico Ghirlandaio, the painter he hired, and the fresco cycle finished here in the 1480s. It ends with the restrained stone facade added decades later, cool where the chapel inside is not.
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