San Giuseppe, Florence

Church of San Giuseppe
Basic information
Location Florence, Italy
Geographic coordinates Coordinates: 43°46′5.04″N 11°15′55.89″E / 43.7680667°N 11.2655250°E / 43.7680667; 11.2655250
Affiliation Roman Catholic
Province Florence
Year consecrated 1519
Architectural description
Architect(s) Baccio d'Agnolo
Architectural type Church
Architectural style Renaissance and Baroque
Completed 1759

San Giuseppe is a Baroque architecture, Roman Catholic church building located on Via San Giuseppe, near Piazza Santa Croce, in central Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy, and is one of two churches and an oratory in the city dedicated to St Joseph.

Interior

History

The church was built on a site that once held the oratory of the Confraternity of St Joseph, and the present church designed by Baccio d'Agnolo. In 1583, the complex was deded to the Minims of St Francis of Paola. A new facade was completed in 1759. When the minims were suppressed in 1784, the convent was put to new uses.

Interior

In the 18th century, the interior was frescoed by Sigismondo Betti and Pietro Anderlini (1752).The baroque interior conserves a painted crucifix by Lorenzo Monaco, with which the Battuti Neri or black hooded penitents from this church, accompanied those condemned to death to the scaffold outside of the city gate called Porta alla Giustizia. It contains two canvases by Santi di Tito: a Nativity and St Francesco di Paola heals the ill.

Gallery

Sources

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