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Museo del Novecento
Modern Art in Florence
In 2014, after lengthy cogitations and restorations, Florence finally consolidated its collections of 20th-century art in a new Museo del Novecento.
They found a most distinguished (and least modern) home for it in the Ospedale di San Paolo (also called the Scuole Leopoldine) on Piazza Santa Maria Novella, with a charming arcaded facade by Michelozzo (1459) that mirrors Brunelleschi's Ospedale degli Innocenti.
Like Brunelleschi's work, this arcade is decorated with terracotta roundels, by Andrea della Robbia, with images of St Francis and his followers; Francis, at least in local legend, was the hospital's founder.
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Text © Dana Facaros & Michael Pauls
Images by Eugenio Hansen, OFS, Katarte.net, Sailko