FLORENCE, TUSCANY, ITALY

INSIDE

BASILICA OF SAN MINIATO AL MONTE, FIRENZE

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The interior of the Basilica has three aisles, the polychromy that marks the facade characterizes also the inside, dominated from the upper chorus. The sidewalls are rich of frescoes of the 14th and 15th century. The pavement of the nave has inlaid marble floor decorate with geometric and zoomorph themes, between which the zodiac wheel (1207) also this similar to that one of the coeval Baptistry. One of the masterpiece is the inlaid marble Aedicule (15th century) commissioned from Piero de' Medici and designed from Michelozzo (1447), to notice the wonderful majolica vault work of Luca della Robbia, on the altar is an altar-piece of the end of 14th century of Agnolo Gaddi that represents San Giovanni Gualberto, San Miniato and some evangelic episodes. Beautiful are the marble enclosure of the upper choir (13th century) with geometric and zoomorph themes (XIII century), on the right of the enclosure is an ambo of 13th century. The Apse is semicircular and introduces an architectonic decoration to white and green marbles, on the Apse dominates the late Byzantine style mosaic (1297) of the Christ Pantocrator with the Madonna, San Miniato and the symbols of the Evangelists. The Crypt, than is found under the upper choir, is divided in seven small aisles from columns, some of them coming from ancient roman buildings, in the vaults are frescoes of Taddeo Gaddi (1341), the railing in wrought iron date back to the 1338. In the Romanesque altar of the Crypt are the body remains of San Miniato.  

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