subject: Chiesa di San Niccolò Oltrarno - Firenze [print this page]
When You book a guided tour in Florence Tours in Florence - Tuscany, with us You'll realize how beautiful and magic this town is.
The church of St. Nicholas Oltrarno is a church in the center of the district of St. Nicholas in Oltrarno,Florence. The first document which testifies its existence, is a papal bull of 1184. Of that time only the cryptremains of the twelfth century, which is accessed by an adjoining room. The church was extensively renovated inthe fifteenth century by Bernardo Quaratesi, who commissioned to Gentile da Fabriano the "Polittico Quaratesi"(1425), now dismembered and divided into various museums. The restoration made necessary by the flood of 1966made it possible to find some fragments of the original fifteenth-century decoration, including a fresco ofSant'Ansano attributed to Francesco D'Antonio. In the vestry is preserved the fresco of the Madonna dellaCintola, school of Ghirlandaio. An altar was built by the Nasi family, whose coat of arms, a shield divided by asilver band with two wheels silver above and one below (in blue field), is located at the base of the columns.Michelangelo hid in the church tower for a few days in a small room at the base of the bell tower, following the capture of Florence by the Medici, against whom he openly spoken out.Michelangelo was in fact significantly compromise against those who had been his major clients, becoming responsible for the building of defensive walls on behalf of Republicans.
Book one of our guided Tour in Florence, and You'll enjoy the unique atmosphere of this beautiful town
