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San Giovannino dei Cavalieri

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Location
  
Architectural type
  
Church

Opened
  
1784

Province
  
Affiliation
  
Roman Catholic

Completed
  
1784

Phone
  
+39 055 470864

Groundbreaking
  
1553

San Giovannino dei Cavalieri

Address
  
Via S. Gallo, 66, 50129 Firenze, Italy

Similar
  
Torre degli Alberti, San Salvatore al Vescovo, Oratorio dei Vanchetoni, Loggia Rucellai, Palazzo dell'Arte dei Beccai

San Giovannino dei Cavalieri (Young St. John the Baptist of the Knights) previously named Church of San Giovanni Decollato (Decapitated St. John), is a parish church situated in Via San Gallo in central Florence, Italy.

Initially the site held a 14th-century home for women of "easy virtue" and dedicated to St. Mary Magdalen, it was renamed after the patron saint of the Cavalieri or Knights of Malta. Rebuilt from 1553-1784, with facade added in 1699. Presently it contains a Coronation of the Virgin by Neri di Bicci, a Nativity by Bicci di Lorenzo, an Annunciation attributed to the Master of Stratonice, a Decapitation of St. John the Baptist by Pietro Dandini, vault frescoes by Alessandro Gherardini, a painted cross in the apse by Lorenzo Monaco, and a Last Supper by Palma il Giovane.

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San Giovannino dei Cavalieri Wikipedia


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