Chiesa di Santa Felicita

This guide to Chiesa di Santa Felicita in Florence follows two very different kinds of secrecy under one roof. It traces the painter Jacopo Pontormo, working alone behind a curtain for years on a Deposition of Christ for the wealthy Capponi family, refusing even his patron a glimpse before it was finished. It also follows Cosimo de' Medici, who in 1565 had a private corridor built straight through the church's facade to link his old palace to his new home. Look up at the grille above the nave before you turn to the painting on your left.