Orsanmichele

Orsanmichele ( Or' San Michele , San Michele in Orto ) owes its name " Saint-Michel-with-jardin" with the initial church, old oratory built into 750 in the garden of a monastery Benedictine of Florence in Italy.

History

Destroyed in 1240, it is replaced by a Loggia sheltering the cereal merchants in 1284 and being able to be used of warehouse against the famines or seat of the city: It is the Loge with the Grains of Arnolfo di Cambio.

Again destroyed, the loggia is rebuilt as from 1337 by Francesco Talenti, but is surmounted warehouses in stages of which the Arti of the corporations present placed each one their protective saint on the pillars (Complete listing).

The worship rehabilitated in the building in 1347 made wall the arcades of the loggia according to the drawings of Simone di Francesco Talenti and the stages were used as concerning the famines.
C' is since the 15th century a vault of Florence on which several artists worked and whose certain works (sculptures) are placed in the gate vaults of the interior or the niches of the external walls (but today they are copies which is exposed there).

Outside

Remarkable statues

Nanni Di Banco: 4 crowned saints carried out between 1408 and 1413, which represents the 4 Christian sculptors Claudius, Castor, Symphorian and Nicostratus, martyrized by the emperor Dioclétien to have refused to make a statue in the honor of the god Esculape.
Donatello : St Georges - It carries out there also its St Marc between 1411 and 1413.
Verrochio : Holy Thomas
Lorenzo Ghiberti: Holy Jean-Baptiste , patron saint of the Arte di Calimala

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