Badia delle Sante Flora e Lucilla

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The facade to the Piazza della Badia

The Badia delle Sante Flora e Lucilla , often also simplified Chiesa di Badia , is a church in the Tuscan city ​​of Arezzo . It was a monastery church and was fundamentally rebuilt in the 16th century. It is known for the resulting architecture inside and for other works of art.

location

The church is located in the city center on the western edge of the old town of Arezzo on the Piazza della Badia named after it , about 150 meters northwest of the Church of San Francesco .

The first part of its name comes from its function as a former abbey church (abbey: Italian : "Badia"), then from its patron sisters , St. Flora and Lucilla .

Building history

There was a Benedictine monastery in Arezzo since the 13th century . The monks did not come to town voluntarily; During this time, the city of Arezzo forced both secular and clerical lords in the surrounding area to settle within the city. They built a church in the 14th century as a monastery church in an originally Gothic style. From 1556 Giorgio Vasari began a thorough renovation of the church in the style of the late Renaissance . The campanile was not completed until 1650.

View through the nave to the choir

facade

The facade facing the piazza is still marked by the construction phases. The portal dates from the time of Vasari; it is designed as an aedicule portal with a segmental arch as the upper end. The Gothic lancet window above and the rest of the original portal next to the present one come from the original facade. The facade is only plastered in the left axis, this extension was also created under Vasari. The facade of the right aisle is covered by the adjacent buildings.

Interior

After Vasari's renovations, the church today has a basilical basic structure; accordingly it has three naves with a raised central nave. Vasari constructed two central rooms that he placed next to each other. The result is that the central nave is or should be coupled over twice. Of the two intended domes, only the western crossing was actually domed. Over the eastern crossing, Andrea Pozzo painted a false dome in 1703 on a canvas stretched over the - real executed - dome drum .

Another special feature is the sequence of pillars and columns . Between the pillars supporting the crossings, Vasari placed two columns with an arcade arch above . In doing so, he followed his concept of the so-called Syrian Arch , which he had previously implemented in the construction of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence . Vasari chose the Tuscan order for the design of the room throughout . The central nave ends in a square choir . The side chapels are covered by small domes. The transitions between the transepts in the central nave and between the chapels and the choir are spanned by barrel vaults.

Works of art

High altar by Giorgio Vasari, 1559 to 1562

In addition to the dummy dome, the church has a few other works of art.

The 12 meter high high altar is also a work by Vasari. The Mannerist work dates from 1559 to 1562, but Vasari did not create it for this church. The altar was originally intended to decorate his tomb and that of his family in the choir of the Pieve Santa Maria church , also in Arezzo. It was brought from there to the local church in 1864. The altar was damaged in the process; the original canopy structure is missing . The middle part is a representation of the calling of the apostles Andrew and Peter at Lake Tiberias . Vasari created the painting for the Vatican as early as 1551; however, the Curia did not pay for the picture, whereupon Vasari took it back. The left part contains depictions of Saints Paul and George as well as Saints Donatus and Stephanus on the right . The selection of the depicted saints is not accidental, they are representations of namesake of the Vasari family. The altar is accessible. There are more paintings on the steps to the side and back.

In the right arm of the eastern crossing hangs a crucifix by Segna di Bonaventura, probably painted in 1369 .

The cloister adjoining the church was built from 1470 according to a design by Giuliano da Maiano . Da Maiano was a pupil of Filippo Brunelleschi ; the cloister was built in the style of the Florentine early Renaissance .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Zimmermanns: Toscana - The hill country and the historic city centers. , Pp. 236/237.
  2. ^ Zimmermanns: Toscana - The hill country and the historic city centers. , P. 237.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Schomann: Art monuments in Tuscany. , P. 390.
  4. ^ Zimmermanns: Toscana - The hill country and the historic city centers. , P. 237.
  5. ^ Zimmermanns: Toscana - The hill country and the historic city centers. , P. 237.
  6. ^ Zimmermanns: Toscana - The hill country and the historic city centers. , P. 237.

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Coordinates: 43 ° 27 ′ 55.6 "  N , 11 ° 52 ′ 45.7"  E