The Santa Croce Museum

"Santa Croce is the largest Franciscan Church in Italy and in the world. It is also the most impressive religious monument in the centre of Florence. Work on the edifice, which is located on the site of a reticent church dating back to the times of St. Francis, was begun at the end of the thirteenth century. Today, inside the church you can see a lot of  works of art (above all from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries) for example the Statute of Dante, and has become even more famous because of the tombs of great Italians that it contains.
Nearby to the vast church and around cloisters grew a monastery. One part now houses the ""Museo dell'Opera di Santa Croce"".
On the right side of Santa Croce is the entrance to the monastery buildings, where it is possible to visit two cloisters, the Pazzi Chapel and the Museo dell'Opera di Santa Croce. The first cloister was built in the late fifteenth century and it leads into the Cappella dei Pazzi.
The museum in Santa Croce in Florence is in the mess hall and neighboring rooms of the monastery.

Other stupendous works include a ""Crucifixion"" by Cimabue, one of his marvelous later masterpieces, a figure made of bronze ""St Louis"" by Donatello (dated in 1423), Maso di Banco's ""Coronation of the Virgin"", Andrea della Robbia's terracotta group ""Stigmata"", Domenico Veneziano's fresco ""St John the Baptist and St Francis"".
Santa Croce is the largest Franciscan Church in Italy and in the world. It is also the most impressive religious monument in the centre of Florence. Work on the edifice, which is located on the site of a reticent church dating back to the times of St. Francis, was begun at the end of the thirteenth century. Today, inside the church you can see a lot of  works of art (above all from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries) for example the Statute of Dante, and has become even more famous because of the tombs of great Italians that it contains.
Nearby to the huge church and around cloisters grew a monastery. One part now houses the ""Museo dell'Opera di Santa Croce"".
On the right side of Santa Croce is the entrance to the monastery buildings, where it is possible to visit two cloisters, the Pazzi Chapel and the Museo dell'Opera di Santa Croce. The first cloister was built in the late fifteenth century and it leads into the Cappella dei Pazzi.
The museum in Santa Croce in Florence is in the mess hall and neighboring rooms of the monastery.
Other stupendous works include a ""Crucifixion"" by Cimabue, one of his marvelous later masterpieces, a figure made of bronze ""St Louis"" by Donatello (dated in 1423), Maso di Banco's ""Coronation of the Virgin"", Andrea della Robbia's terracotta group ""Stigmata"", Domenico Veneziano's fresco ""St John the Baptist and St Francis"".