The Dominican Church Of Santa Maria Novella At Florence
Subtitle: a historical, architectural, and artistic study
Publisher: O. Schulze
Published: 1902
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: PART I. — THE FIRST CHAPEL AND CHURCH.; title: (CHIEFLY HISTORICAL.); title: Chapter I. — THE EARLY CHAPELRY.; title: Meaning of the Name S. M. Novella — Colonising Movement from Fiesole in the Seventh Century — Relation of this Novella to that City — Similar case of San Martino — The Situation and Appearance of Santa Maria Novella in the Earliest Times, 3; title: Chapter II. — THE FIRST CHURCH.; title: Florence rises again, and S. M. Novella has a new importance in relation to the nearer City — Parish formed and Church built and consecrated in 1094 — Its History and Progress during the following Century — Site and Style of this Church, 12; title: Chapter III. — THE CANONRY.; title: Nature of the Canonical Order, and its History in the Diocese of Florence — Property of the Chapter in S. M. Novella and consequent changes there, 22; title: Chapter IV. — CANONS AND RECTORS.; title: Patronage at S. M. Novella and Manner of its Exercise — Order of Induction to the cure here — Succession of Incumbents — Priest J 5 erard offends the Parish in 1195 — His Death, and the Candidature of Paul — The Chapter oppose this Clergyman and secure the Election of Ranieri — Armed resistance at the Church — Interdict on the part of the Chapter, and Enquiry in 1197 before Card. Pandulfus, the Pope's Commissioner — Victory of Paul and the Parish, 27; title: Appendix. — Inventory of Documents, a.d. 983-1222, 39; title: PART II. — THE LATER BUILDINGS.; title: (CHIEFLY ARCHITECTURAL.); title: Chapter I. — THE TRANSEPT CHURCH.; title: The Patarene War delays Building at S. M. Novella — Nature of this Heresy, and Defeat of those who held it in 1245 — New Church begun — Reasons for thinking that this Building is represented by the present Transepts — Effect of this Conclusion on the Credit to be given to Vasari in his Account of the Early Studies of Cimabue, 51; title: Chapter II. — THE THIRD, OR PRESENT CHURCH.; title: Prior Aldobrandino Cavalcanti and his Architects — The Cardinal Latino lays the Foundation Stone in 1279 — Grants in Aid of the Building — Completed c. 1300 — Choir Screen — Rucellai Chapel — Succession of Architects in S. M. Novella — Decoration of the Church — Chapel of the Pura — 'Restoration' by Vasari, 1565 — Tombs in the Pavement, 62; title: Chapter III. — THE CONVENT.; title: Changes made on Canons' Cloister, c. 1221 — Chapter House transferred to Via Valfonda, 1243 — Ground acquired from S. Paolo — Progress of New Buildings: Schola of the Laudesi, 1285; Infirmary, 1291 — State of the Convent at the close of the Thirteenth Century — Great Cloister probably begun c. 1303, at the Capitoio del Nocentino — Suspension of Works — Hospitium — Work resumed 1320 — Chapel of St. Nicholas, 1332 — Flood of 1333 — Great Cloister rebuilt and heightened — Story of a Gambler's Sacrilege and Death — The Green Cloister and its Decoration — The Upper Storeys of the Great Cloister — Changes in the First Cloister : Chapels of the Strozzi, Popoleschi, Amieri, and St. Joseph — Decoration of St. Nicholas' Chapel — Dati's Cloister — Sale del Papa — Council of Florence and its Results, 73; title: Chapter IV. — THE CEMETERIES.; title: Churchyard of 1064 — Burial in Church — Transepts built over the Churchyard : Proof of this — Development of New Cemeteries : The Sepolcreto, with its Eastern Aisle ; the Upper Cemetery ; the System of the Avelli, and the History of this Form of Interment — Changes in the Sepolcreto, and its Extension in opposite Directions as Space grew scarcer — Vaults of the Brunelleschi and Nelli ; Compagnia of the Gesu Pellegrino, and Chapel of the Alfieri-Strinati — Changes in the Cemetery, 94; title: Appendix. — Itinerary of the Church, 111; title: PART III. — THE SPANISH CHAPEL.; title: (CHIEFLY IDEAL AND ARTISTIC.); title: Chapter I. — THE FOUNDER AND HIS BUILDING.; title: Plague at Florence, 1348, and its effect in promoting Piety — Guidalotti and his Director — Character of the Latter — Need of a new Chapter House at S. M. Novella — Talenti overcomes Difficulties of the Site, and builds it for Guidalotti — Beauty of this Structure, 139; title: Chapter II. — DECORATION AND LATER HISTORY OF THE CHAPTER HOUSE.; title: Guidalotti dies in 1355, and leaves Money to paint the Chapel and Capitolo — These Frescoes possibly restored c. 1430 — The Place handed over to the Spaniards by Cosimo I. in 1567, and by them Rededicated and Decorated — Last Restoration in the Eighteenth Century by Veracini, 145; title: Chapter III. — THE DOCTRINE OF THE SPANISH CHAPEL: NORTH AND SOUTH WALLS.; title: Passavanti Plans the Ideal Scheme of these Frescoes — Their Arrangement about Two Axes — Doctrine of the Body and Blood of Christ in the Altarpiece and North and South Walls from Incarnation to Ascension, 150; title: Chapter IV. — THE DOCTRINE OF THE SPANISH CHAPEL: WEST AND EAST WALLS.; title: Roof-Centre and Meaning of Symbol there — Connection between Current Ideas of the Time and these Frescoes of the descending Spirit — Division of the Spirit's Grace — The Wisdom of the West Wall; the Power of the East — Final connection of all with South Roof-Space and Centre, 155; title: Appendix. — Iconography of the Spanish Chapel, 163; title: Index, 173