https://www.florencepictures.com Fri, 17 Apr 2026 04:46:15 -0400 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 04:46:15 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Zenphoto RSS Generator https://www.florencepictures.com/historical-center/other-churches/santa-maria-del-carmine-cappella-brancacci/santa_maria_del_carmine_02.jpg The church, dedicated to the Beatæ Virginis Mariæ de monte Carmelo, was built from 1268 as part of the Carmelite convent, which still exists today. Of the original edifice only some Romanesque-Gothic remains can be seen on the sides. The façade, like in many Florentine churches, remained unfinished.
Date: 10/26/2010]]> https://www.florencepictures.com/historical-center/other-churches/santa-maria-del-carmine-cappella-brancacci/santa_maria_del_carmine_02.jpg Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:39:20 -0400 https://www.florencepictures.com/historical-center/other-churches/santa-maria-del-carmine-cappella-brancacci/santa_maria_del_carmine_01.jpg Santa Maria del Carmine is a church of the Carmelite Order, in the Oltrarno district of Florence, in Tuscany, Italy. It is famous as the location of the Brancacci Chapel housing outstanding Renaissance frescoes by Masaccio and Masolino da Panicale, later finished by Filippino Lippi.
Date: 10/26/2010]]> https://www.florencepictures.com/historical-center/other-churches/santa-maria-del-carmine-cappella-brancacci/santa_maria_del_carmine_01.jpg Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:39:20 -0400 https://www.florencepictures.com/historical-center/other-churches/santa-maria-del-carmine-cappella-brancacci/cappella_brancacci_11.jpg The scenes by Masaccio are the Expulsion from Paradise, The Tribute Money St Peter Healing a Lame-Man and St Peter Raising Tabitha from the dead. The cycle was finished by Filippino Lippi after Masaccio's death at an early age.
Date: 10/26/2010]]> https://www.florencepictures.com/historical-center/other-churches/santa-maria-del-carmine-cappella-brancacci/cappella_brancacci_11.jpg Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:39:22 -0400 https://www.florencepictures.com/historical-center/other-churches/santa-maria-del-carmine-cappella-brancacci/cappella_brancacci_10.jpg The scenes by Masaccio are the Expulsion from Paradise, The Tribute Money St Peter Healing a Lame-Man and St Peter Raising Tabitha from the dead. The cycle was finished by Filippino Lippi after Masaccio's death at an early age.
Date: 10/26/2010]]> https://www.florencepictures.com/historical-center/other-churches/santa-maria-del-carmine-cappella-brancacci/cappella_brancacci_10.jpg Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:39:05 -0400 https://www.florencepictures.com/historical-center/other-churches/santa-maria-del-carmine-cappella-brancacci/cappella_brancacci_09.jpg The scenes by Masaccio are the Expulsion from Paradise, The Tribute Money St Peter Healing a Lame-Man and St Peter Raising Tabitha from the dead. The cycle was finished by Filippino Lippi after Masaccio's death at an early age.
Date: 10/26/2010]]> https://www.florencepictures.com/historical-center/other-churches/santa-maria-del-carmine-cappella-brancacci/cappella_brancacci_09.jpg Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:39:06 -0400 https://www.florencepictures.com/historical-center/other-churches/santa-maria-del-carmine-cappella-brancacci/cappella_brancacci_08.jpg Masolino commissioned by a wealthy merchant, Felice Brancacci, began work on the chapel in 1425 but the project was soon taken over by his pupil, Masaccio, whose treatment of figures in believable space made the frescoes among the most important to have come out of the Early Renaissance.
Date: 10/26/2010]]> https://www.florencepictures.com/historical-center/other-churches/santa-maria-del-carmine-cappella-brancacci/cappella_brancacci_08.jpg Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:39:20 -0400 https://www.florencepictures.com/historical-center/other-churches/santa-maria-del-carmine-cappella-brancacci/cappella_brancacci_07.jpg Internal courtyard of the convent, which suffered numerous natural disasters, from fire to the flooding of 1966. Most of the artworks are therefore fragmentary, including works by Filippo Lippi and a Last Supper by Alessandro Allori, and remains of works from other chapels by Pietro Nelli and Gherardo Starnina.
Date: 10/26/2010]]> https://www.florencepictures.com/historical-center/other-churches/santa-maria-del-carmine-cappella-brancacci/cappella_brancacci_07.jpg Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:38:44 -0400 https://www.florencepictures.com/historical-center/other-churches/santa-maria-del-carmine-cappella-brancacci/cappella_brancacci_06.jpg View of the interior of the church. The church was built from 1268 as part of the Carmelite convent, which is still existing today. Renovated in the 16th-17th centuries, it was damaged by a fire in 1771 and rebuilt internally in 1782. The façade, like in many Florentine churches, remained unfinished.
Date: 10/26/2010]]> https://www.florencepictures.com/historical-center/other-churches/santa-maria-del-carmine-cappella-brancacci/cappella_brancacci_06.jpg Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:39:01 -0400 https://www.florencepictures.com/historical-center/other-churches/santa-maria-del-carmine-cappella-brancacci/cappella_brancacci_05.jpg Partial view of the vault of the nave, with trompe-l'oeil fresco by Domenico Stagi.
Date: 10/26/2010]]> https://www.florencepictures.com/historical-center/other-churches/santa-maria-del-carmine-cappella-brancacci/cappella_brancacci_05.jpg Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:38:40 -0400 https://www.florencepictures.com/historical-center/other-churches/santa-maria-del-carmine-cappella-brancacci/cappella_brancacci_04.jpg Opposite the Corsini Chapel is the Brancacci Chapel, home to the famous frescoes by Masaccio and Masolino, considered the first masterwork of the Italian Renaissance.
Date: 10/26/2010]]> https://www.florencepictures.com/historical-center/other-churches/santa-maria-del-carmine-cappella-brancacci/cappella_brancacci_04.jpg Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:38:37 -0400