Santa Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi
{{Short description|Renaissance-style Roman Catholic Church}}
{{about|the religious complex in Florence|other uses|Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi (disambiguation)}}
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|image = Santa Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi ingresso.JPG
|caption = The entrance with the portico
|location = Florence, Italy
|religious_affiliation = Roman Catholic
|province = Florence
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Santa Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi is a Renaissance-style Roman Catholic church and a former convent located in Borgo Pinti in central Florence, Italy.
History
The Pazzi name was added after the Carmelite order nun Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi, canonized in 1669, whose family patronized the church. The original convent had been dedicated to Saint Mary Magdalene delle Convertite, the patron of once fallen, now converted women. The Cistercian order from Badia a Settimo took control of the site in 1332 and moved to it in 1442, while the convent was transferred to San Donato in Polverosa. However, the church and chapter house were rebuilt between 1481 and 1500, with initial designs in 1492 by Giuliano da Sangallo.
The 13th-century interiors were redecorated in the 17th and early 18th centuries, which removed the altarpieces by masters such as Botticelli, Perugino, Lorenzo di Credi, Domenico Ghirlandaio, and Raffaellino del Garbo. They were replaced by new ones from minor masters such as Carlo Portelli, Alfonso Boschi, Domenico Puligo, Santi di Tito, and Francesco Curradi. In the chapter house is a fresco divided into three lunettes of the Crucifixion and Saints (1493–1496) by Pietro Perugino, commissioned by Dionisio and Giovanna Pucci.
The first chapel to the right of the entrance is the Cappella del Giglio (Chapel of Saint Mary of the Lily), frescoed with depictions of Saints Philip Neri, Bernard, Nereus and Achilleus by the studio of Bernardino Poccetti, with an altarpiece by Domenico Passignano. The fourth chapel on the right has a stained glass window by Isabella, the daughter of Georges Henri Rouault. The choir chapel originally contained a fresco by Domenico Ghirlandaio but was rebuilt from 1685 to 1701 by Ciro Ferri and Pier Francesco Silvani. Ferri painted the altarpiece and Luca Giordano the flanking pieces. The statues of Penitence and Faith on the right were sculpted by Innocenzo Spinazzi, and those of Innocence and Religion on the left by Giovanni Monatauti. The bronze reliefs on the altar were made by Massimiliano Soldani-Benzi.
The interior also contains works by Giovanni and Cosimo Bizzelli, Jacopo Chiavistelli, Ottavio Vannini, Cosimo Rosselli, Cosimo Gamberucci, Leonardo del Tasso, Giuseppe Servolini, and Giuseppe Piattoli.
Gallery
File:Ciro ferri, Vergine e santa Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi, 1684, 04.JPG|Virgin and Saint (detail) by Ciro Ferri
File:Ciro ferri, Vergine e santa Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi, 1684, 05.JPG|Virgin and Saint (detail)
File:Luca giordano, Gesu e santa Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi, 1685, 02.JPG|Jesus and Saint by Luca Giordano
File:Luca giordano, Vergine presenta il Bambino a santa Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi, 1685, 04.JPG|Virgin Presenting the Christ Child by Luca Giordano
File:Giovan Battista Cipriani, Comunione di santa Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi (1754) 01.JPG|Communion by Giovanni Battista Cipriani
File:Natività della Vergine di Giovanni Stradano, 1583 (2).JPG|Nativity of the Virgin by Stradanus
File:L'Adorazione dei pastori di Giovanni Stradano, 1583.JPG|The Adoration of the Shepherds by Stradanus
See also
Further reading
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- Cristina Acidini. Santa Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi. La chiesa e il convento. [S.l.] Mandragora, 2020. {{ISBN|9788874615407}}.
- {{cite book |first=Eve |last=Borsook |editor-first=Vincent |editor-last=Cronin |title=The Companion Guide to Florence |year=1991 |publisher=Harper Collins |isbn=000215139-1 |page=248}}
- Luchs, Alison. "Cestello: A Cistercian Church of the Florentine Renaissance." PhD diss. Johns Hopkins University, 1976 (Garland Outstanding Dissertations in the Fine Arts, 1977).
- Wundram, Manfred. Kunstführer Florenz. Stuttgart: Reclam, 1993, pages 227–228. {{ISBN|978-3150103852}}.
- [http://www.frommers.com/destinations/florence/A33295.html Frommers entry]
- [http://www.museumsinflorence.com/musei/crocefissione_del_perugino.html Museums in Florence.]
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Category:Roman Catholic churches in Florence
Category:15th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy
Category:Renaissance architecture in Florence