Ospedale degli Innocenti (Florence, Italy) : Window over arcade, depicting shallow pediment
- Creator:
- Brunelleschi, Filippo, 1377-1446
Robbia, Andrea della, 1435-1525 or 1528 - Published/Created:
- Piazza Santissima Annunziata, Florence, Tuscany, Italy
1419-1445 ; 1487 (alteration) - Date Depicted:
- 9/1/1994
500 AD - 1499 AD - Materials:
- pietra serena
stone
tin-glazed terracotta - Notes:
- The Ospedale was an asylum or hospice for foundling children. The plan of the complex (1419-1424) reveals a new order and symmetry; the most revolutionary part of the building, however, is the façade, which was the first since antiquity to use the vocabulary of Classical Roman architecture and thus constitutes the first structure of the Renaissance. Above each column is a ceramic tondo. These were originally meant by Brunelleschi to be blank concavities, but ca. 1487, Andrea della Robbia was commissioned to fill them in.
- Variant Titles:
- Hospital of the Innocents
- Topics:
- Architecture -- Italy -- 15th century -- (YVRC)
- Period/Style:
- Renaissance
- Culture:
- Italian
- Accession Number:
- 1A1-BFI-OI-C1
- Genre:
- architecture (AAT)
- Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Sculptures, Models, & Architecture
- Rights:
- Copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc
The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement. - Access Restrictions:
- Yale Community Only
- Digital:
- architectural exteriors construction ; fabrication attributes: ceramics buildings; welfare buildings; orphanages window; pediment
- Source Creator:
- Gilchrist, Scott
- Source Title:
- Archivision Base Collection
- Source Created:
- 2878 Chamonix, Montreal QC
Archivision, Inc.
9/1/1994 - Source Note:
- Purchase, Visual Resources Collection, May, 2011; photographer Scott Gilchrist
- Yale Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Digital Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Local Record Number:
- 4152
- OID:
- 10086971
- PID:
- digcoll:1863709