Architecture of Florence
Encyclopedia
This is a list of the main architectural works in Florence
Florence
Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....

, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 by period. Also includes buildings in surrounding cities, such as Fiesole
Fiesole
Fiesole is a town and comune of the province of Florence in the Italian region of Tuscany, on a famously scenic height above Florence, 8 km NE of that city...

. Some structures appear two or more times, since they were built in various styles.

Pre-historic, Greek and Roman periods

Image Building Date Architect Notes
Necropoli of Palastreto  8th century BC
Tomba della Mula
Tomba della Mula
The Tomba della Mula is a beehive tomb in Sesto Fiorentino, near Florence, central Italy, dating to the 7th century BC....

 
7th century BC Sesto Fiorentino
Sesto Fiorentino
Sesto Fiorentino is a municipality in the province of Florence, Tuscany, central Italy. It has c. 46,700 inhabitants.- History :The oldest known human settlement in the area dates from the Mesolithic...

Archaeological area of Fiesole  3rd century - 4th century BC Fiesole
Fiesole
Fiesole is a town and comune of the province of Florence in the Italian region of Tuscany, on a famously scenic height above Florence, 8 km NE of that city...

Roman Amphitheatre of Florence
Roman Amphitheatre of Florence
The Roman Amphitheatre of Florence, Italy was located near the Piazza dei Peruzzi.When it was built between 124 and 130 AD, it was well outside the walls of Florence and the amphitheatre marked the point of maximum expansion east....

2nd century BC
Archaeological excavations of Santa Reparata  4th-5th century AD.
Torre della Pagliazza  Perhaps 6th century, later 10-11th century AD

Romanesque

Image Building Date Architect Notes
Badia di San Salvatore  10th century Badia a Settimo
Badia Fiorentina
Badia Fiorentina
The Badìa Fiorentina is an abbey and church now home to the Fraternity of Jerusalem situated on the Via del Proconsolo in the centre of Florence, Italy. Dante supposedly grew up across the street in what is now called the 'Casa di Dante', rebuilt in 1910 as a museum to Dante...

 
10th century and 1282–1335
Church of Santi Apostoli  10-11th century
Baptistery of San Giovanni  11th-14th century
Church of San Miniato al Monte  1018–1207
Cathedral of Fiesole  1024–1028 Fiesole
Fiesole
Fiesole is a town and comune of the province of Florence in the Italian region of Tuscany, on a famously scenic height above Florence, 8 km NE of that city...

Badia Fiesolana
Badia Fiesolana
The Badia Fiesolana is an old monastery located in the town of San Domenico, in-between Fiesole and Florence.- History :The monastery was built between 1025-1028 on the location of a former chapel dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint Romulus. Originally, it bore the name of Saint Bartolomeus...

 
1025–1028 Fiesole
Fiesole
Fiesole is a town and comune of the province of Florence in the Italian region of Tuscany, on a famously scenic height above Florence, 8 km NE of that city...

Church of San Salvatore al Vescovo
San Salvatore al Vescovo
San Salvatore al Vescovo is a church located in Florence, Italy.It was first built in the 11th century and has had several subsequent modifications. The lower portion of the facade is built in a Romanesque architecture style with bi-colored marble decorations.-References :...

 
10th century
Church of Santa Maria Maggiore  10th-13th century
Church of Santo Stefano al Ponte
Santo Stefano al Ponte
Santo Stefano al Ponte is a church in Florence, Italy.The church was originally constructed in the 11th and 12th century in a Romanesque style with a polychrome marble facade. The interior featured three aisles. In the 14th century, the exterior was renovated. Of the original facade, only the...

 
11th-12th century
Church of San Michele a San Salvi  11th-16th century
Church of San Jacopo sopr'Arno
San Jacopo sopr'Arno
San Jacopo sopr'Arno is a church in Florence, Italy.The church was built in the 10th-11th century in Romanesque style; it subsequently and experienced heavy modifications, including the addition of a triple-arched portico....

 
12th century
Church of San Jacopo in Campo Corbolini  12th-14th century
Church of San Remigio
San Remigio di Firenze
San Remigio di Firenze is a church in Florence, Italy.The church was founded around the year 1000. It is dedicated to Saint Remigius. In the 13th century, the church was reconstructed to feature a triangle-shaped facade with hanging arches along the roof line...

 
13th-14th century
Torre della Castagna  13th century
Palazzo del Bargello (or Palazzo del Popolo) c. 1256–1327 and c. 1345-1350 Neri di Fioravante and Benci di Cione 
Torre dei Ghiberti  13th century
Torre dei Ricci  13th century
Torri di Corso Donati  13th century
Torre dei Marsili  13th century
Torre degli Amidei
Torre degli Amidei
The Torre degli Amidei is a tower in Florence, Italy. Dating from the upper Middle Ages, it is located near the Piazza della Signoria. Once located near the city's ancient walls, it belonged to the Amidei family, and, according to the tradition, was the alleged location of the killing of...

 
13th century
Torre degli Alberti
Torre degli Alberti
The Torre degli Alberti is a medieval tower in Florence, Italy. It has a polygonal plan and was the headquarters and residence of the Alberti, one of the most numerous and powerful families in the medieval Florence....

 
13th century
Palazzo de' Mozzi  1260–1273
Porta San Gallo  1284
Porta al Prato  1284
Palazzo Spini-Feroni  from 1289
Torre dei Gianfigliazzi
Torre dei Gianfigliazzi
The Torre dei Gianfigliazzi is a tower in Florence, central Italy. Built during the Middle Ages, it is currently home to a hotel.-History:A large tower-residence, it was built in medieval times for the Guelph family of the Ruggerini, and was totally demolished after the Guelph were expelled from...

 
c. 1290

Gothic

Image Building Date Architect Notes
Church of Santa Trinita
Santa Trinita
Santa Trinita is a church in central Florence, Italy. It is the mother church of the Vallumbrosan Order of monks, founded in 1092 by a Florentine nobleman...

 
1250–1380
Santa Maria Novella and convent 1278–1360 Fra' Sisto da Firenze and Fra' Ristoro da Campi 
Belltower of Badia Fiorentina
Badia Fiorentina
The Badìa Fiorentina is an abbey and church now home to the Fraternity of Jerusalem situated on the Via del Proconsolo in the centre of Florence, Italy. Dante supposedly grew up across the street in what is now called the 'Casa di Dante', rebuilt in 1910 as a museum to Dante...

 
c. 1285 Arnolfo di Cambio
Arnolfo di Cambio
Arnolfo di Cambio was an Italian architect and sculptor.-Biography:Arnolfo was born in Colle Val d'Elsa, Tuscany....

 
Basilica of Santa Croce and convent from 1294 Arnolfo di Cambio
Arnolfo di Cambio
Arnolfo di Cambio was an Italian architect and sculptor.-Biography:Arnolfo was born in Colle Val d'Elsa, Tuscany....

 (attribution) and others
Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore
Santa Maria del Fiore
The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the cathedral church of Florence, Italy. The Duomo, as it is ordinarily called, was begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to the design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed structurally in 1436 with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi...

 
1296–1421 Arnolfo di Cambio
Arnolfo di Cambio
Arnolfo di Cambio was an Italian architect and sculptor.-Biography:Arnolfo was born in Colle Val d'Elsa, Tuscany....

, Francesco Talenti
Francesco Talenti
Francesco Talenti was a Tuscan architect and sculptor who worked mainly in Florence after 1351. He is mentioned working at Orvieto Cathedral in 1325. In the 1350s he completed the two middle storeys of Giotto's Campanile, and two doorways, the Porta dei Cornacchini and the Porta del Campanile,...

 and others
Palazzo Vecchio
Palazzo Vecchio
The Palazzo Vecchio is the town hall of Florence, Italy. This massive, Romanesque, crenellated fortress-palace is among the most impressive town halls of Tuscany...

 (first phase)
1299–1314 Arnolfo di Cambio
Arnolfo di Cambio
Arnolfo di Cambio was an Italian architect and sculptor.-Biography:Arnolfo was born in Colle Val d'Elsa, Tuscany....

 
Porta San Niccolò  1324
Porta Romana  1326
Church of San Francesco (Fiesole)  from 1330 Fiesole
Fiesole
Fiesole is a town and comune of the province of Florence in the Italian region of Tuscany, on a famously scenic height above Florence, 8 km NE of that city...

Porta San Frediano  1332
Giotto's Belltower  1334–1357 Giotto, Francesco Talenti
Francesco Talenti
Francesco Talenti was a Tuscan architect and sculptor who worked mainly in Florence after 1351. He is mentioned working at Orvieto Cathedral in 1325. In the 1350s he completed the two middle storeys of Giotto's Campanile, and two doorways, the Porta dei Cornacchini and the Porta del Campanile,...

, Andrea Pisano
Andrea Pisano
Andrea Pisano , also known as Andrea da Pontedera, was an Italian sculptor and architect.-Biography:Andrea Pisano was born at Pontedera, where he also died....

 and others
Orsanmichele
Orsanmichele
Orsanmichele is a church in the Italian city of Florence...

 
1337–1404 Simone Talenti and others
Certosa del Galluzzo  from 1342 Jacopo Passavanti and others
Ponte Vecchio
Ponte Vecchio
The Ponte Vecchio is a Medieval stone closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge over the Arno River, in Florence, Italy, noted for still having shops built along it, as was once common. Butchers initially occupied the shops; the present tenants are jewellers, art dealers and souvenir sellers...

 
1345 Neri di Fioravante ?
Palazzo Castellani  first half of 14th century
Palazzo dell'Arte dei Beccai  first half of 14th century
Church of San Carlo dei Lombardi  1349–1404 Neri di Fioravante and Benci di Cione
Palazzo Davanzati
Palazzo Davanzati
Palazzo Davanzati is a palace in Florence, Italy. It houses the Museum of the Old Florentine House.-History:Palazzo Davanzati was erected in the second half of the 14th century by the Davizzi family, who were wealthy members of the wool guild. In 1516 it was sold to the Bartolini and, later that...

 
c. 1350
Loggia del Bigallo
Loggia del Bigallo
The Loggia del Bigallo is a late Gothic structure in Florence, Italy. It is one of a dozen public loggias in the city, in this case part of a construction that housed the Compagnia della Misericordia, who commissioned the structure, probably from the architect-sculptor Alberto Arnoldi; it was built...

 
1352–1358 Alberto Arnoldi
Alberto Arnoldi
Alberto Arnoldi was a 14th century Italian sculptor and architect. He was born in Florence.In 1364, he made the colossal group of the Madonna and Child with two angels for the Loggia del Bigallo in Florence. Arnoldi worked at this group from 1359 to 1364...

 
Palazzo Acciaiuoli  second-half of 14th century
Palazzo Canigiani  second half of 14th century
Loggia della Signoria  1374–1381 Benci di Cione and Simone Talenti 
Palazzo di Parte Guelfa
Palazzo di Parte Guelfa
The Palazzo di Parte Guelfa is a historical building in Florence, central Italy. During he Middle Ages, it was the headquarters of the Guelph party in the city .-History:...

 
14th-15th century

Renaissance (15th century)

Image Building Date Architect Notes
Palazzo Bardi  1410 Filippo Brunelleschi
Filippo Brunelleschi
Filippo Brunelleschi was one of the foremost architects and engineers of the Italian Renaissance. He is perhaps most famous for inventing linear perspective and designing the dome of the Florence Cathedral, but his accomplishments also included bronze artwork, architecture , mathematics,...

?
Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore  1418–1434 Filippo Brunelleschi
Filippo Brunelleschi
Filippo Brunelleschi was one of the foremost architects and engineers of the Italian Renaissance. He is perhaps most famous for inventing linear perspective and designing the dome of the Florence Cathedral, but his accomplishments also included bronze artwork, architecture , mathematics,...

 
Sacristy of Santa Trinita
Santa Trinita
Santa Trinita is a church in central Florence, Italy. It is the mother church of the Vallumbrosan Order of monks, founded in 1092 by a Florentine nobleman...

 
1418–1423 Lorenzo Ghiberti
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Lorenzo Ghiberti , born Lorenzo di Bartolo, was an Italian artist of the early Renaissance best known for works in sculpture and metalworking.-Early life:...

Spedale degli Innocenti  1419–1426 Filippo Brunelleschi
Filippo Brunelleschi
Filippo Brunelleschi was one of the foremost architects and engineers of the Italian Renaissance. He is perhaps most famous for inventing linear perspective and designing the dome of the Florence Cathedral, but his accomplishments also included bronze artwork, architecture , mathematics,...

 and others
Convent of San Domenico  c. 1419-38 and 1480-90 Michelozzo
Michelozzo
thumb|250px|[[Palazzo Medici]] in Florence.Michelozzo di Bartolomeo Michelozzi was an Italian architect and sculptor.-Biography:...

 and Giuliano da Maiano
Giuliano da Maiano
Giuliano da Maiano was an Italian architect, intarsia-worker and sculptor, the elder brother of Benedetto da Maiano, with whom he often collaborated.- Biography :...

 
Fiesole
Fiesole
Fiesole is a town and comune of the province of Florence in the Italian region of Tuscany, on a famously scenic height above Florence, 8 km NE of that city...

Basilica of San Lorenzo  1419–1460 Filippo Brunelleschi
Filippo Brunelleschi
Filippo Brunelleschi was one of the foremost architects and engineers of the Italian Renaissance. He is perhaps most famous for inventing linear perspective and designing the dome of the Florence Cathedral, but his accomplishments also included bronze artwork, architecture , mathematics,...

 and others
Sagrestia Vecchia
Sagrestia Vecchia
The Sagrestia Vecchia, or Old Sacristy, is a Christian building in Florence, Italy, one of the most important monuments of the early Italian Renaissance architecture. It is accessed from the inside of San Lorenzo off the left transept...

 of San Lorenzo
1420–1429 Filippo Brunelleschi
Filippo Brunelleschi
Filippo Brunelleschi was one of the foremost architects and engineers of the Italian Renaissance. He is perhaps most famous for inventing linear perspective and designing the dome of the Florence Cathedral, but his accomplishments also included bronze artwork, architecture , mathematics,...

 
Barbadori Chapel
Barbadori Chapel
The Barbadori Chapel, later Capponi Chapel, is a chapel in the church of Santa Felicita in Florence, central Italy. It was designed by Filippo Brunelleschi, and was later decorated by a cycle of works by the Mannerist painter Pontormo.-History:...

 in Santa Felicita 
1425 Filippo Brunelleschi
Filippo Brunelleschi
Filippo Brunelleschi was one of the foremost architects and engineers of the Italian Renaissance. He is perhaps most famous for inventing linear perspective and designing the dome of the Florence Cathedral, but his accomplishments also included bronze artwork, architecture , mathematics,...

 
Palazzo Capponi da Uzzano  1427 Lorenzo di Bicci
Lorenzo di Bicci
Lorenzo di Bicci was an Italian painter of the Florentine school, traditional in outlook. He is believed to have learned his trade from his father, about whom little other than his name, Bicci, is known. By 1370, Lorenzo was a member of the Guild of Saint Luke, the painters' guild of Florence...

 
Palazzo Lenzi-Quaratesi  c. 1430 Michelozzo
Michelozzo
thumb|250px|[[Palazzo Medici]] in Florence.Michelozzo di Bartolomeo Michelozzi was an Italian architect and sculptor.-Biography:...

 ?
Church of Sant'Ambrogio  14th-15th century
Church of San Niccolò sopr'Arno  first half of 15th century
Church of Santa Maria del Carmine  1268–1475
Monastery of Sant'Apollonia  c. 1380-1450
Pazzi Chapel
Pazzi Chapel
The Pazzi Chapel is a religious building in Florence, central Italy, considered to be one of the masterpieces of Renaissance architecture. It is located in the "first cloister" of the Basilica di Santa Croce.- History :...

 and Grand Cloister of Santa Croce
1430–1473 Filippo Brunelleschi
Filippo Brunelleschi
Filippo Brunelleschi was one of the foremost architects and engineers of the Italian Renaissance. He is perhaps most famous for inventing linear perspective and designing the dome of the Florence Cathedral, but his accomplishments also included bronze artwork, architecture , mathematics,...

 and others
Chiostro degli Aranci in the Badia Fiorentina
Badia Fiorentina
The Badìa Fiorentina is an abbey and church now home to the Fraternity of Jerusalem situated on the Via del Proconsolo in the centre of Florence, Italy. Dante supposedly grew up across the street in what is now called the 'Casa di Dante', rebuilt in 1910 as a museum to Dante...

 
1435–1440 Bernardo Rossellino
Bernardo Rossellino
Bernardo di Matteo del Borra Gamberelli , better known as Bernardo Rossellino, was an Italian sculptor and architect, the elder brother of the sculptor Antonio Rossellino...

 
Church  and San Marco
San Marco, Florence
San Marco is the name of a religious complex in Florence, Italy. It comprises a church and a convent. The convent, which is now a museum, has three claims to fame: during the 15th century it was home to two famous Dominicans, the painter Fra Angelico and the preacher, Girolamo Savonarola...

 
1437–1452 Michelozzo
Michelozzo
thumb|250px|[[Palazzo Medici]] in Florence.Michelozzo di Bartolomeo Michelozzi was an Italian architect and sculptor.-Biography:...

 
Façade of Santa Maria Novella  1439–1442 Leon Battista Alberti 
Former church of San Pancrazio
San Pancrazio (Florence)
San Pancrazio is a deconsecrated church in Florence, Italy. It is located in the square with the same name, behind Palazzo Rucellai. It is today home to the museum dedicated to the sculptor Marino Marini....

 
1375–1470 Leon Battista Alberti and others
Palazzo Medici Riccardi
Palazzo Medici Riccardi
The Palazzo Medici, also called the Palazzo Medici Riccardi after the later family that acquired and expanded it, is a Renaissance palace located in Florence, Italy.-History:...

 
1444–1469 Michelozzo
Michelozzo
thumb|250px|[[Palazzo Medici]] in Florence.Michelozzo di Bartolomeo Michelozzi was an Italian architect and sculptor.-Biography:...

 
Basilica of Santissima Annunziata and convent 1444–1476 Michelozzo
Michelozzo
thumb|250px|[[Palazzo Medici]] in Florence.Michelozzo di Bartolomeo Michelozzi was an Italian architect and sculptor.-Biography:...

 and others
Palazzo Rucellai
Palazzo Rucellai
Palazzo Rucellai is a palatial 15th century townhouse on the Via della Vigna Nuova in Florence, Italy. The Rucellai Palace is believed by most scholars to have been designed by Leon Battista Alberti between 1446 and 1451 and executed, at least in part, by Bernardo Rossellino...

 
1446–1451 Leon Battista Alberti and Bernardo Rossellino
Bernardo Rossellino
Bernardo di Matteo del Borra Gamberelli , better known as Bernardo Rossellino, was an Italian sculptor and architect, the elder brother of the sculptor Antonio Rossellino...

 
Church of Santo Spirito  1446–1488 Filippo Brunelleschi
Filippo Brunelleschi
Filippo Brunelleschi was one of the foremost architects and engineers of the Italian Renaissance. He is perhaps most famous for inventing linear perspective and designing the dome of the Florence Cathedral, but his accomplishments also included bronze artwork, architecture , mathematics,...

 and others
Palazzo dello Strozzino
Palazzo dello Strozzino
Palazzo dello Strozzino is a palace in Florence, Italy. was a residence of the Strozzi family, older than the larger and more prestigious Palazzo Strozzi.It was also called Palazzo delle Tre Porte for his three portals...

 
1451–1469 Filippo Brunelleschi
Filippo Brunelleschi
Filippo Brunelleschi was one of the foremost architects and engineers of the Italian Renaissance. He is perhaps most famous for inventing linear perspective and designing the dome of the Florence Cathedral, but his accomplishments also included bronze artwork, architecture , mathematics,...

 (attributed), Michelozzo
Michelozzo
thumb|250px|[[Palazzo Medici]] in Florence.Michelozzo di Bartolomeo Michelozzi was an Italian architect and sculptor.-Biography:...

 (attributed) and Giuliano da Maiano
Giuliano da Maiano
Giuliano da Maiano was an Italian architect, intarsia-worker and sculptor, the elder brother of Benedetto da Maiano, with whom he often collaborated.- Biography :...

 
Badia Fiesolana
Badia Fiesolana
The Badia Fiesolana is an old monastery located in the town of San Domenico, in-between Fiesole and Florence.- History :The monastery was built between 1025-1028 on the location of a former chapel dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint Romulus. Originally, it bore the name of Saint Bartolomeus...

 
1456–1464 Collaborators of Michelozzo
Michelozzo
thumb|250px|[[Palazzo Medici]] in Florence.Michelozzo di Bartolomeo Michelozzi was an Italian architect and sculptor.-Biography:...

 
Fiesole
Fiesole
Fiesole is a town and comune of the province of Florence in the Italian region of Tuscany, on a famously scenic height above Florence, 8 km NE of that city...

Church of San Felice in Piazza  c. 1457 Michelozzo
Michelozzo
thumb|250px|[[Palazzo Medici]] in Florence.Michelozzo di Bartolomeo Michelozzi was an Italian architect and sculptor.-Biography:...

 
Villa Medici at Careggi
Villa Medici at Careggi
The Villa Medici at Careggi is a patrician villa in the hills near Florence, Tuscany, central Italy.-History:The villa was among the first of a number of Medici villas, notable as the site of the Platonic academy founded by Cosimo de' Medici, who died at the villa in 1464...

 
1457–1482 Michelozzo
Michelozzo
thumb|250px|[[Palazzo Medici]] in Florence.Michelozzo di Bartolomeo Michelozzi was an Italian architect and sculptor.-Biography:...

 
Villa Medici at Fiesole  1457–1461 Michelozzo
Michelozzo
thumb|250px|[[Palazzo Medici]] in Florence.Michelozzo di Bartolomeo Michelozzi was an Italian architect and sculptor.-Biography:...

 
Fiesole
Fiesole
Fiesole is a town and comune of the province of Florence in the Italian region of Tuscany, on a famously scenic height above Florence, 8 km NE of that city...

First nucleus of Palazzo Pitti
Palazzo Pitti
The Palazzo Pitti , in English sometimes called the Pitti Palace, is a vast mainly Renaissance palace in Florence, Italy. It is situated on the south side of the River Arno, a short distance from the Ponte Vecchio...

 
1457–1470 Luca Fancelli
Luca Fancelli
Luca Fancelli was an Italian architect and sculptor.-Biography:Fancelli was born in Settignano, a fraction of Florence...

 
Palazzo Pazzi  1458–1469 Giuliano da Maiano
Giuliano da Maiano
Giuliano da Maiano was an Italian architect, intarsia-worker and sculptor, the elder brother of Benedetto da Maiano, with whom he often collaborated.- Biography :...

 
Loggia Rucellai  1460–1466 ?
Palazzo Antinori
Palazzo Antinori
Palazzo Antinori is a Renaissance palace in Florence, central Italy. It is located at one end of Via de' Tornabuoni-History:The palace was built in 1461-1469, perhaps under the design of Giuliano da Maiano, for Giovanni di Bono Boni...

 
1461–1466 Giuliano da Maiano
Giuliano da Maiano
Giuliano da Maiano was an Italian architect, intarsia-worker and sculptor, the elder brother of Benedetto da Maiano, with whom he often collaborated.- Biography :...

 
Palazzo Della Gherardesca  1472–1490 Giuliano da Sangallo
Giuliano da Sangallo
Giuliano da Sangallo was an Italian sculptor, architect and military engineer active during the Italian Renaissance.He was born in Florence. His father Francesco Giamberti was a woodworker and architect, much employed by Cosimo de Medici, and his brother Antonio da Sangallo the Elder and nephew...

 
Palazzo Horne  1480–1490 Giuliano da Sangallo
Giuliano da Sangallo
Giuliano da Sangallo was an Italian sculptor, architect and military engineer active during the Italian Renaissance.He was born in Florence. His father Francesco Giamberti was a woodworker and architect, much employed by Cosimo de Medici, and his brother Antonio da Sangallo the Elder and nephew...

 or Cronaca 
Church of Santa Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi  1481–1500 Giuliano da Sangallo
Giuliano da Sangallo
Giuliano da Sangallo was an Italian sculptor, architect and military engineer active during the Italian Renaissance.He was born in Florence. His father Francesco Giamberti was a woodworker and architect, much employed by Cosimo de Medici, and his brother Antonio da Sangallo the Elder and nephew...

 
Villa Medici of Poggio a Caiano  1485-94 e 1515-19 Giuliano da Sangallo
Giuliano da Sangallo
Giuliano da Sangallo was an Italian sculptor, architect and military engineer active during the Italian Renaissance.He was born in Florence. His father Francesco Giamberti was a woodworker and architect, much employed by Cosimo de Medici, and his brother Antonio da Sangallo the Elder and nephew...

 
Sagrestia di Santo Spirito  1488–1497 Giuliano da Sangallo
Giuliano da Sangallo
Giuliano da Sangallo was an Italian sculptor, architect and military engineer active during the Italian Renaissance.He was born in Florence. His father Francesco Giamberti was a woodworker and architect, much employed by Cosimo de Medici, and his brother Antonio da Sangallo the Elder and nephew...

 and Salvi d'Andrea 
Loggia di San Paolo  1489–1496 Leon Battista Alberti 
Palazzo Strozzi
Palazzo Strozzi
Palazzo Strozzi is a palace in Florence, Italy.-History:The construction of the palace begun in 1489 by Benedetto da Maiano, for Filippo Strozzi the Elder, a rival of the Medici who had returned to the city in November 1466 and desired the most magnificent palace to assert his family's continued...

 
1489–1534 Giuliano da Sangallo
Giuliano da Sangallo
Giuliano da Sangallo was an Italian sculptor, architect and military engineer active during the Italian Renaissance.He was born in Florence. His father Francesco Giamberti was a woodworker and architect, much employed by Cosimo de Medici, and his brother Antonio da Sangallo the Elder and nephew...

, Cronaca and others
Palazzo Gondi
Palazzo Gondi
Palazzo Gondi is a palace in Florence, Italy, located a block from Piazza della Signoria.It was built in 1490 under design by Giuliano da Sangallo, who was inspired by other major works of stately buildings in the city, such as Palazzo Medici and Palazzo Strozzi...

 
1490–1501 Giuliano da Sangallo
Giuliano da Sangallo
Giuliano da Sangallo was an Italian sculptor, architect and military engineer active during the Italian Renaissance.He was born in Florence. His father Francesco Giamberti was a woodworker and architect, much employed by Cosimo de Medici, and his brother Antonio da Sangallo the Elder and nephew...

 

Late Renaissance and Mannerism (16th century)

Image Building Date Architect Notes
Annexation of the Palazzo Vecchio
Palazzo Vecchio
The Palazzo Vecchio is the town hall of Florence, Italy. This massive, Romanesque, crenellated fortress-palace is among the most impressive town halls of Tuscany...

 
1495–1590 Il Cronaca, Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari was an Italian painter, writer, historian, and architect, who is famous today for his biographies of Italian artists, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing.-Biography:...

, Bernardo Buontalenti
Bernardo Buontalenti
Bernardo Buontalenti, byname of Bernardo Delle Girandole was an Italian stage designer, architect, theatrical designer, military engineer and artist.-Biography:Buontalenti was born in Florence....

 and others
Church of San Salvatore al Monte  c. 1500 Il Cronaca 
Palazzo Cocchi-Serristori
Palazzo Cocchi-Serristori
Palazzo Cocchi-Serristori is a palace in Piazza Santa Croce, Florence, Italy.It is situated opposite to the church of Santa Croce, in the place where the city's 12th century walls passed. The palace is a reconstruction of a pre-existing medieval edifice , attributed to Giuliano da Sangallo, Baccio...

 
c. 1500 Baccio d'Agnolo
Baccio D'Agnolo
Baccio D'Agnolo , born Bartolomeo Baglioni, was an Italian woodcarver, sculptor and architect from Florence."Baccio"'is an abbreviation of Bartolomeo, and "d'Agnolo" refers to Angelo, his father's name...

 or il Cronaca 
Palazzo Albizi  c. 1500 Baccio d'Agnolo
Baccio D'Agnolo
Baccio D'Agnolo , born Bartolomeo Baglioni, was an Italian woodcarver, sculptor and architect from Florence."Baccio"'is an abbreviation of Bartolomeo, and "d'Agnolo" refers to Angelo, his father's name...

 or il Cronaca 
Palazzo Panciatichi-Ximenes  c. 1500 Giuliano
Giuliano da Sangallo
Giuliano da Sangallo was an Italian sculptor, architect and military engineer active during the Italian Renaissance.He was born in Florence. His father Francesco Giamberti was a woodworker and architect, much employed by Cosimo de Medici, and his brother Antonio da Sangallo the Elder and nephew...

, Antonio da Sangallo il Vecchio and others
Palazzo Corsini-Serristori  c. 1500 Baccio d'Agnolo
Baccio D'Agnolo
Baccio D'Agnolo , born Bartolomeo Baglioni, was an Italian woodcarver, sculptor and architect from Florence."Baccio"'is an abbreviation of Bartolomeo, and "d'Agnolo" refers to Angelo, his father's name...

 
Palazzo Taddei  1503–1504 Baccio d'Agnolo
Baccio D'Agnolo
Baccio D'Agnolo , born Bartolomeo Baglioni, was an Italian woodcarver, sculptor and architect from Florence."Baccio"'is an abbreviation of Bartolomeo, and "d'Agnolo" refers to Angelo, his father's name...

 
Palazzo Guadagni  1503–1506 Il Cronaca 
Chiostro dello Scalzo  early 16th century Giuliano da Sangallo
Giuliano da Sangallo
Giuliano da Sangallo was an Italian sculptor, architect and military engineer active during the Italian Renaissance.He was born in Florence. His father Francesco Giamberti was a woodworker and architect, much employed by Cosimo de Medici, and his brother Antonio da Sangallo the Elder and nephew...

 
Palazzo Ginori  c. 1510 Baccio d'Agnolo
Baccio D'Agnolo
Baccio D'Agnolo , born Bartolomeo Baglioni, was an Italian woodcarver, sculptor and architect from Florence."Baccio"'is an abbreviation of Bartolomeo, and "d'Agnolo" refers to Angelo, his father's name...

 
Palazzo Pandolfini  1515–1520 Raffaello and Giuliano da Sangallo
Giuliano da Sangallo
Giuliano da Sangallo was an Italian sculptor, architect and military engineer active during the Italian Renaissance.He was born in Florence. His father Francesco Giamberti was a woodworker and architect, much employed by Cosimo de Medici, and his brother Antonio da Sangallo the Elder and nephew...

 
Loggiato dei Serviti  1516–1525 Antonio da Sangallo the Elder
Antonio da Sangallo the Elder
Antonio da Sangallo the Elder was an Italian Renaissance architect who specialized in the design of fortifications.-Biography:Antonio da Sangallo was born at Florence....

 
Palazzo Borgherini-Rosselli del Turco  c. 1517 Baccio d'Agnolo
Baccio D'Agnolo
Baccio D'Agnolo , born Bartolomeo Baglioni, was an Italian woodcarver, sculptor and architect from Florence."Baccio"'is an abbreviation of Bartolomeo, and "d'Agnolo" refers to Angelo, his father's name...

 
Palazzo Bartolini Salimbeni
Palazzo Bartolini Salimbeni
The Palazzo Bartolini Salimbeni is a palace in Florence, central Italy.-History:The palace is situated where once were the residence of the Soldanieri and later Dati families, who were bought by Bartolomeo Bartolini-Salimbeni....

 
1517–1520 Baccio d'Agnolo
Baccio D'Agnolo
Baccio D'Agnolo , born Bartolomeo Baglioni, was an Italian woodcarver, sculptor and architect from Florence."Baccio"'is an abbreviation of Bartolomeo, and "d'Agnolo" refers to Angelo, his father's name...

 
Sagrestia Nuova of San Lorenzo  1519–1534 Michelangelo Buonarroti 
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana  1519–1559 Michelangelo Buonarroti 
Church of San Giuseppe  c. 1520
Villa i Collazzi  1534 Scandicci
Scandicci
thumb|250px|Pieve of Sant'Alessandro a Giogoli.Scandicci is a comune of c. 50,000 inhabitants in the Province of Florence in the Italian region Tuscany, located about 6 km southwest of Florence....

Fortezza da Basso  1534–1535 Antonio da Sangallo the Younger
Antonio da Sangallo the Younger
thumb|250px|The church of Santa Maria di Loreto near the [[Trajan's Market]] in [[Rome]], considered Sangallo's masterwork.thumb|250px|View of St. Patrick's Well in [[Orvieto]]....

 
Villa di Castello
Villa di Castello
The Villa di Castello is one of the Medici villas near Florence, Tuscany, central Italy. Its ideal design appears in a lunette painted by Giusto Utens in 1599. The property was purchased by Lorenzo de'Medici in 1477 on the site of an existing building which he had rebuilt...

 
1540–1592 Niccolò Tribolo
Niccolò Tribolo
Niccolò di Raffaello di Niccolò dei Pericoli, called "Il Tribolo" was an Italian Mannerist artist in the service of Cosimo I de' Medici in his natal city of Florence.-Life:...

 e Bernardo Buontalenti
Bernardo Buontalenti
Bernardo Buontalenti, byname of Bernardo Delle Girandole was an Italian stage designer, architect, theatrical designer, military engineer and artist.-Biography:Buontalenti was born in Florence....

 
Loggia del Mercato Nuovo
Loggia del Mercato Nuovo
The Loggia del Mercato Nuovo , popularly known as the Loggia del Porcellino , is a building in Florence, Italy. It is so called to distinguish it from the Mercato vecchio located in the area of today's Piazza della Repubblica....

 
1546–1564 Giovanni Battista del Tasso 
Palazzo Uguccioni
Palazzo Uguccioni
Palazzo Uguccioni is a Renaissance palace on the Piazza della Signoria in Florence, central Italy.The palace was built, over pre-existing structures, for Giovanni Uguccioni starting from 1550...

 
c. 1550
Church of San Giovannino dei Cavalieri  c. 1550
Palazzo Niccolini  c. 1550 Baccio d'Agnolo
Baccio D'Agnolo
Baccio D'Agnolo , born Bartolomeo Baglioni, was an Italian woodcarver, sculptor and architect from Florence."Baccio"'is an abbreviation of Bartolomeo, and "d'Agnolo" refers to Angelo, his father's name...

 and Giovanni Dosio 
Boboli Gardens
Boboli Gardens
The Boboli Gardens are a park in Florence, Italy, that is home to a collection of sculptures dating from the 16th through the 18th centuries, with some Roman antiquities.-History and layout:...

 
1550–1588 Niccolò Tribolo
Niccolò Tribolo
Niccolò di Raffaello di Niccolò dei Pericoli, called "Il Tribolo" was an Italian Mannerist artist in the service of Cosimo I de' Medici in his natal city of Florence.-Life:...

, Bernardo Buontalenti
Bernardo Buontalenti
Bernardo Buontalenti, byname of Bernardo Delle Girandole was an Italian stage designer, architect, theatrical designer, military engineer and artist.-Biography:Buontalenti was born in Florence....

 and others
Palazzo Grifoni-Budini Gattai  1557–1563 Baccio d'Agnolo
Baccio D'Agnolo
Baccio D'Agnolo , born Bartolomeo Baglioni, was an Italian woodcarver, sculptor and architect from Florence."Baccio"'is an abbreviation of Bartolomeo, and "d'Agnolo" refers to Angelo, his father's name...

 and Bartolomeo Ammannati 
Enlargement of Palazzo Pitti
Palazzo Pitti
The Palazzo Pitti , in English sometimes called the Pitti Palace, is a vast mainly Renaissance palace in Florence, Italy. It is situated on the south side of the River Arno, a short distance from the Ponte Vecchio...

 
1558–1577 Bartolomeo Ammannati and others
Uffizi
Uffizi
The Uffizi Gallery , is a museum in Florence, Italy. It is one of the oldest and most famous art museums of the Western world.-History:...

 
1559–1580 Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari was an Italian painter, writer, historian, and architect, who is famous today for his biographies of Italian artists, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing.-Biography:...

 and others
Palazzo Capponi-Vettori  1559–1585 Bernardo Buontalenti
Bernardo Buontalenti
Bernardo Buontalenti, byname of Bernardo Delle Girandole was an Italian stage designer, architect, theatrical designer, military engineer and artist.-Biography:Buontalenti was born in Florence....

 and others
Corridoio Vasariano  1565 Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari was an Italian painter, writer, historian, and architect, who is famous today for his biographies of Italian artists, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing.-Biography:...

 
Palazzo Pucci  1565–1570 Bartolomeo Ammannati 
Loggia del Pesce
Loggia del Pesce
The Loggia del Pesce is a historical building in Florence, Italy. It is formed by nine wide arcades, supported by piers or columns. On each side are eight medallions depicting fishing activities and the sea...

 
1567 Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari was an Italian painter, writer, historian, and architect, who is famous today for his biographies of Italian artists, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing.-Biography:...

 
Palazzo di Bianca Cappello  1567–1570 Bernardo Buontalenti
Bernardo Buontalenti
Bernardo Buontalenti, byname of Bernardo Delle Girandole was an Italian stage designer, architect, theatrical designer, military engineer and artist.-Biography:Buontalenti was born in Florence....

 
Palazzo Portinari Salviati  1565–1570 Bartolomeo Ammannati 
Ponte Santa Trinita
Ponte Santa Trinita
The Ponte Santa Trìnita is a Renaissance bridge in Florence, Italy, spanning the Arno. The Ponte Santa Trìnita is the oldest elliptic arch bridge in the world, the three flattened ellipses giving the structure its celebrated elegant appearance...

 
1567–1570 Bernardo Buontalenti
Bernardo Buontalenti
Bernardo Buontalenti, byname of Bernardo Delle Girandole was an Italian stage designer, architect, theatrical designer, military engineer and artist.-Biography:Buontalenti was born in Florence....

 
Palazzo Ramirez da Montalvo  1568–1572 Bartolomeo Ammannati 
Casino Mediceo  1568–1574 Bernardo Buontalenti
Bernardo Buontalenti
Bernardo Buontalenti, byname of Bernardo Delle Girandole was an Italian stage designer, architect, theatrical designer, military engineer and artist.-Biography:Buontalenti was born in Florence....

 
Villa La Petraia
Villa La Petraia
The Villa La Petraia is one of the Medici villas in Castello, near Florence, Tuscany, central Italy.It has a distinctive 19th century Belvedere on the upper east terrace on axis with the view of Florence- External links :...

 
1576–1589 Bernardo Buontalenti
Bernardo Buontalenti
Bernardo Buontalenti, byname of Bernardo Delle Girandole was an Italian stage designer, architect, theatrical designer, military engineer and artist.-Biography:Buontalenti was born in Florence....

 
Palazzo Giugni  c. 1577 Bartolomeo Ammannati 
Palazzo Zuccari
Palazzo Zuccari
Palazzo Zuccari is a 16th century palace in Florence built by Federico Zuccari....

 
1578–1579 Federico Zuccari
Federico Zuccari
Federico Zuccari, also known as Federigo Zuccaro , was an Italian Mannerist painter and architect, active both in Italy and abroad.-Biography:Zuccari was born at Sant'Angelo in Vado, near Urbino ....

 
Palazzo Larderel  c. 1580 Giovanni Dosio 
Grotta del Buontalenti  1583–1593 Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari was an Italian painter, writer, historian, and architect, who is famous today for his biographies of Italian artists, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing.-Biography:...

 and Bernardo Buontalenti
Bernardo Buontalenti
Bernardo Buontalenti, byname of Bernardo Delle Girandole was an Italian stage designer, architect, theatrical designer, military engineer and artist.-Biography:Buontalenti was born in Florence....

 
Forte Belvedere  1590–1595 Bernardo Buontalenti
Bernardo Buontalenti
Bernardo Buontalenti, byname of Bernardo Delle Girandole was an Italian stage designer, architect, theatrical designer, military engineer and artist.-Biography:Buontalenti was born in Florence....

 and others
Façade of Santa Trinita
Santa Trinita
Santa Trinita is a church in central Florence, Italy. It is the mother church of the Vallumbrosan Order of monks, founded in 1092 by a Florentine nobleman...

 
1593 Bartolomeo Ammannati 
Palazzo Nonfinito  1593–1604 Bernardo Buontalenti
Bernardo Buontalenti
Bernardo Buontalenti, byname of Bernardo Delle Girandole was an Italian stage designer, architect, theatrical designer, military engineer and artist.-Biography:Buontalenti was born in Florence....

 and others
Villa La Ferdinanda  1594–1596 Bernardo Buontalenti
Bernardo Buontalenti
Bernardo Buontalenti, byname of Bernardo Delle Girandole was an Italian stage designer, architect, theatrical designer, military engineer and artist.-Biography:Buontalenti was born in Florence....

 
Carmignano

17th century

Image Building Date Architect Notes
Renovation of the chiesa della Santissima Annunziata  1601–1693 Giovanni Caccini and others
Church of Santa Margherita in Santa Maria de' Ricci  1604 Gherardo Silvani
Gherardo Silvani
Gherardo Silvani was an Italian architect and sculptor, active mainly in Florence and other sites in Tuscany during the Baroque period....

 
Church of Santi Michele e Gaetano  1604–1649 Matteo Nigetti
Matteo Nigetti
Matteo Nigetti was an Italian architect and sculptor. He is considered the most important Baroque architect in Florence....

, Gherardo Silvani
Gherardo Silvani
Gherardo Silvani was an Italian architect and sculptor, active mainly in Florence and other sites in Tuscany during the Baroque period....

 
Cappella dei Principi in San Lorenzo 1604–1650 Matteo Nigetti
Matteo Nigetti
Matteo Nigetti was an Italian architect and sculptor. He is considered the most important Baroque architect in Florence....

 and others
Arcispedale di Santa Maria Nuova  1606–1663 Bernardo Buontalenti
Bernardo Buontalenti
Bernardo Buontalenti, byname of Bernardo Delle Girandole was an Italian stage designer, architect, theatrical designer, military engineer and artist.-Biography:Buontalenti was born in Florence....

 and Giulio Parigi
Giulio Parigi
Giulio Parigi was an Italian architect and designer. He was the main member of a family of architects and designers working for the Grand Ducal court of the Medici...

 
Church of Ognissanti
Church of Ognissanti, Florence
The Chiesa di Ognissanti is a Franciscan church in Florence, Italy. Founded by the lay order of the Umiliati, the church was dedicated to all the saints and martyrs, known and unknown....

 
1627–1637 Bartolomeo Pettirossi and Matteo Nigetti
Matteo Nigetti
Matteo Nigetti was an Italian architect and sculptor. He is considered the most important Baroque architect in Florence....

 
Church of Santi Simone e Giuda
Chiesa dei Santi Simone e Giuda
The Chiesa dei Santi Simone e Giuda is a church in Florence, situated on the Piazza San Simone in an area of narrow streets between the Piazza Santa Croce and the Piazza della Signoria. The present structure dates from 1243 but underwent a major renovation designed by Gherardo Silvani in 1630...

 
1628–1630 (date of extensive
renovation, original building
dates from the 13th century)
Gherardo Silvani
Gherardo Silvani
Gherardo Silvani was an Italian architect and sculptor, active mainly in Florence and other sites in Tuscany during the Baroque period....

 
Church of Santo Stefano al Ponte  1631–1655 Pietro Tacca
Pietro Tacca
Pietro Tacca was an Italian sculptor, who was the chief pupil and follower of Giambologna. Tacca began in a Mannerist style and worked in the Baroque style during his maturity.-Biography:...

 and Antonio Maria Bartolommei 
Enlargement of Palazzo Pitti
Palazzo Pitti
The Palazzo Pitti , in English sometimes called the Pitti Palace, is a vast mainly Renaissance palace in Florence, Italy. It is situated on the south side of the River Arno, a short distance from the Ponte Vecchio...

 
1619–1650 Giulio Parigi
Giulio Parigi
Giulio Parigi was an Italian architect and designer. He was the main member of a family of architects and designers working for the Grand Ducal court of the Medici...

 
Palazzo dell'Antella
Palazzo dell'Antella
Palazzo dell'Antella is a palace in Piazza Santa Croce, Florence, Italy.Of medieval origins, it was first enlarged in the late 16th century with the addition of a top floor...

 
1619 Giulio Parigi
Giulio Parigi
Giulio Parigi was an Italian architect and designer. He was the main member of a family of architects and designers working for the Grand Ducal court of the Medici...

 
Palazzo Strozzi del Poeta  1626–1629 Gherardo Silvani
Gherardo Silvani
Gherardo Silvani was an Italian architect and sculptor, active mainly in Florence and other sites in Tuscany during the Baroque period....

 
Palazzo Capponi-Covoni  1623 Gherardo Silvani
Gherardo Silvani
Gherardo Silvani was an Italian architect and sculptor, active mainly in Florence and other sites in Tuscany during the Baroque period....

 and others
Palazzo Fenzi
Palazzo Fenzi
Palazzo Fenzi is a palace in Florence, Italy.Built in the 16th century for the Castelli family by Gherardo Silvani, it was later enlarged by the Marucelli family...

 
1634 Gherardo Silvani
Gherardo Silvani
Gherardo Silvani was an Italian architect and sculptor, active mainly in Florence and other sites in Tuscany during the Baroque period....

 
Palazzo di San Clemente
Palazzo di San Clemente
Palazzo di San Clemente is a residential palace in Florence, Italy.-History:Along the current Via Capponi there was a small building visible in plan of the city from 1584, which was acquired and enlarged by Luigi di Toledo, brother of Grand Duchess Eleanor of Toledo...

 
c. 1640 Gherardo Silvani
Gherardo Silvani
Gherardo Silvani was an Italian architect and sculptor, active mainly in Florence and other sites in Tuscany during the Baroque period....

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Palazzo della Missione  c. 1640-1650 Bernardino Radi
Bernardino Radi
Bernardino Radi was an Italian engraver and architect, born in Cortona, who etched a set of plates depicting architectural ornaments and monuments, published in Rome in 1618, under the title of Varie invenzoni per depositi di Bernardino Radi Cortonese....

 
Palazzo Corsini al Parione  1656–1699 Antonio Maria Ferri and others
Church of San Giovannino degli Scolopi  1661–1665 Alfonso Parigi il Giovane 
Church of San Paolino  1669–1693 Giovan Battista Balatri 
Enlargement of Palazzo Medici-Riccardi  1670–1685 Pier Maria Baldi and Giovan Battista Foggini 
Church of San Frediano in Cestello
San Frediano in Cestello
San Frediano in Cestello is a church in the Oltrarno section of Florence, Tuscany, Italy.The name cestello derives from the Cistercians who occupied the church in 1628. Previously the site had a 1450s church attached to the cloistered Carmelite convent of Santa maria degli Angeli.In 1680-1689, the...

 
1670–1698 Pier Francesco Silvani
Pier Francesco Silvani
Pier Francesco Silvani was an Italian architect and designer, active during the Baroque period, in Florence and other sites in Tuscany.He is the son of the architect Gherardo Silvani...

, Giulio Cerutti and Antonio Maria Ferri 
Cappella Corsini in the church of the Carmine 1674–1683 Pier Francesco Silvani
Pier Francesco Silvani
Pier Francesco Silvani was an Italian architect and designer, active during the Baroque period, in Florence and other sites in Tuscany.He is the son of the architect Gherardo Silvani...

 
Palazzo Orlandini del Beccuto  1679 Antonio Maria Ferri 
Palazzo dei Cartelloni
Palazzo dei Cartelloni
Palazzo dei Cartelloni, also known as Palazzo Viviani, is a historical edifice in Florence, central Italy.This building displays many unusual architectural elements, the most evident being the unusually big epigraphs written in Latin...

 
1690–1963 Giovan Battista Nelli 
Palazzo Viviani della Robbia  1693–1696 Giovan Battista Foggini 
Villa Corsini a Castello  1698–1699 Giovan Battista Foggini 

Rococo and Habsburg-Lorraine period (18th century-first half of 19th century)

Image Building Date Architect Notes
Palazzo di Gino Capponi  1699–1716 Carlo Fontana
Carlo Fontana
Carlo Fontana was an Italian architect, who was in part responsible for the classicizing direction taken by Late Baroque Roman architecture.-Biography:...

 and others
Complex of San Firenze  1645–1775 Pier Francesco Silvani
Pier Francesco Silvani
Pier Francesco Silvani was an Italian architect and designer, active during the Baroque period, in Florence and other sites in Tuscany.He is the son of the architect Gherardo Silvani...

 and others
Galleria Palatina in Palazzo Pitti
Palazzo Pitti
The Palazzo Pitti , in English sometimes called the Pitti Palace, is a vast mainly Renaissance palace in Florence, Italy. It is situated on the south side of the River Arno, a short distance from the Ponte Vecchio...

 
18th-19th century
Ospedale di San Giovanni di Dio  1702–1735 Carlo Marcellini 
Church of San Giorgio alla Costa  1705 Giovan Battista Foggini 
Interior of Santa Felicita  1736–1739 Ferdinando Ruggieri
Ferdinando Ruggieri
Ferdinando Ruggeri was an Italian architect....

 
Triumphal arch 1738–1740 Jean Nicholas Jadot 
Biblioteca Marucelliana  1748–1752 Alessandro Dori 
Rondò of Palazzo Pitti
Palazzo Pitti
The Palazzo Pitti , in English sometimes called the Pitti Palace, is a vast mainly Renaissance palace in Florence, Italy. It is situated on the south side of the River Arno, a short distance from the Ponte Vecchio...

 
1765 and 1783-99 Giuseppe Ruggieri and Niccolò Gaspero Maria Paoletti 
Villa di Poggio Imperiale
Villa di Poggio Imperiale
Villa del Poggio Imperiale is a predominantly neoclassical former grand ducal villa in Arcetri, just to the south of Florence in Tuscany, central Italy...

 
1767–1808 Gaspare Maria Paoletti, Pasquale Poccianti and Giuseppe Cacialli 
Casino della Livia  1775 Bernardo Fallani 
Palazzo della Specola  dal 1775 Alessandro Dori and others
Kaffeehaus del Giardino di Boboli  1775–1776 Zanobi del Rosso
Zanobi del Rosso
Zanobi del Rosso was an Italian architect. He designed the Kaffeehaus in the Boboli Gardens.- References :...

 
Parco delle Cascine  c. 1780-1850
Ex-Ospedale di San Matteo  dal 1781
Ex-Ospedale Bonifacio  1787 Giuseppe Salvetti 
Palazzina Reale alle Cascine  1787 Giuseppe Manetti 
Teatro Comunale  1792–1862 Telemaco Bonaiuti and others
Giardino Torrigiani  1815–1821 Luigi de Cambray Digny and Gaetano Baccani 
Palazzo Borghese  1821–1822 Gaetano Baccani 
Piazza Indipendenza  after 1850
Palazzo Malenchini Alberti
Palazzo Malenchini Alberti
Palazzo Malenchini Alberti is a palace in Florence, Italy. It was owned by the Alberti, who had also a tower nearby.Until the 15th century, their residence was formed by a series of different houses and workshops, which were unified in 1760-1763 by will of Giovan Vincenzo Alberti...

 
1849-1851 Façade redesigned by Odoardo Razzi and Niccolò Salvi
Villa Favard  1857 Giuseppe Poggi
Giuseppe Poggi
Giuseppe Poggi was an Italian architect.A native of Florence, he received numerous commissions from the city's upper bourgeoisie for renovations of palaces and gardens....

 
Palazzo Calcagnini  1857 Giuseppe Poggi
Giuseppe Poggi
Giuseppe Poggi was an Italian architect.A native of Florence, he received numerous commissions from the city's upper bourgeoisie for renovations of palaces and gardens....

 
Palazzo della Borsa  1858–1860 Michelangelo Maiorfi and Emilio De Fabris
Emilio De Fabris
Emilio De Fabris was born 1808 in Florence, Italy. Fabris was an architect most famous for his design of the west facade of the Santa Maria del Fiore. The original facade design by Giotto was found outdated for the cathedral and so a series of three competitions were held to modify Giotto's...

 

Neoclassicism, Empire and Art Nouveau (second-half of 19th century - first-half of 20th century)

Image Building Date Architect Notes
Facciata della basilica di Santa Croce  1857–1863 Niccolò Matas 
Appartamenti Monumentali in the Palazzo Pitti
Palazzo Pitti
The Palazzo Pitti , in English sometimes called the Pitti Palace, is a vast mainly Renaissance palace in Florence, Italy. It is situated on the south side of the River Arno, a short distance from the Ponte Vecchio...

 
18th - 19th century
Piazza d'Azeglio  1862–1866
Piazza della Libertà
Piazza della Libertà
Piazza della Libertà is the northernmost point of the historic centre of Florence. It was created in the 19th century during works to produce the Viali di Circonvallazione around the city....

 
1865–1873 Giuseppe Poggi
Giuseppe Poggi
Giuseppe Poggi was an Italian architect.A native of Florence, he received numerous commissions from the city's upper bourgeoisie for renovations of palaces and gardens....

 and Giacomo Roster 
Piazza Beccaria
Piazza Beccaria
Piazza Cesare Beccaria is a square of Florence located on the viali di Circonvallazione great boulevards.Realized by the architect Giuseppe Poggi when Florence was Capital of Kingdom of Italy, was dedicated to Cesare Bonesana marchese di Beccaria in 1876....

 
1865–1877 Giuseppe Poggi
Giuseppe Poggi
Giuseppe Poggi was an Italian architect.A native of Florence, he received numerous commissions from the city's upper bourgeoisie for renovations of palaces and gardens....

 and Giacomo Roster 
Piazza Giuseppe Poggi  1865–1876 Giuseppe Poggi
Giuseppe Poggi
Giuseppe Poggi was an Italian architect.A native of Florence, he received numerous commissions from the city's upper bourgeoisie for renovations of palaces and gardens....

 and N. Frosali
Mercato Centrale di San Lorenzo  1869–1874 Giuseppe Mengoni
Giuseppe Mengoni
Giuseppe Mengoni was an Italian architect. He designed the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan. He died by accident, falling off the roof of the gallery he had built....

 
Viale dei Colli and piazzale Michelangelo
Piazzale Michelangelo
Piazzale Michelangelo is a famous square with a magnificent panoramic view of Florence, Italy, and is a popular tourist destination in the Oltrarno district of the city...

 
1871–1876 Giuseppe Poggi
Giuseppe Poggi
Giuseppe Poggi was an Italian architect.A native of Florence, he received numerous commissions from the city's upper bourgeoisie for renovations of palaces and gardens....

 
Palazzo Serristori  1873 Mariano Falcini 
Tempio israelitico di Firenze  1874–1882 Vincenzo Micheli 
Reconstruction of the Casa di Dante  1875–1910 Giuseppe Castellucci and others
Façade of Santa Maria del Fiore
Santa Maria del Fiore
The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the cathedral church of Florence, Italy. The Duomo, as it is ordinarily called, was begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to the design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed structurally in 1436 with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi...

 
1876–1887 Emilio De Fabris
Emilio De Fabris
Emilio De Fabris was born 1808 in Florence, Italy. Fabris was an architect most famous for his design of the west facade of the Santa Maria del Fiore. The original facade design by Giotto was found outdated for the cathedral and so a series of three competitions were held to modify Giotto's...

 and Luigi Del Moro 
Tepidarium in the giardino dell'Orticultura  1879–1880 Giacomo Roster 
Villa Stibbert  1880–1888 Gaetano Fortini 
Piazza della Repubblica
Piazza della Repubblica (Florence)
Piazza della Repubblica is a city square in Florence, Italy. It is on the site, first of the city's forum and then of the city's old ghetto, which was swept away during the city improvement works or Risanamento initiated during the brief period when Florence was the capital of a reunited Italy,...

 
1883–1896 Vincenzo Micheli and others
Museo Bardini  c. 1890-1910 Stefano Bardini
Stefano Bardini
Stefano Bardini was an Italian connoisseur and art dealer in Florence who specialized in Italian paintings, Renaissance sculpture, cassoni and other Renaissance and Cinquecento furnishings and architectural fragments that came on the market during the urbanistic reorganization of Florence in the...

 
Chiesa Russa Ortodossa della Natività  1899–1903 Michail Preobragenski and others
Villa il Gioiello
Villa Il Gioiello
Villa il Gioiello is a villa in Florence, central Italy, famous for being one of the residences of Galileo Galilei, which he lived in from 1631 until his death in 1642...

 and Torre del Gallo
Torre del Gallo
The Torre del Gallo is a historical building located in Florence, Italy, located at Pian de 'Giullari, in the hills of Arcetri, on top of a ridge overlooking the city where there is a magnificent panorama.-Origins:...

 
c. 1900 Stefano Bardini
Stefano Bardini
Stefano Bardini was an Italian connoisseur and art dealer in Florence who specialized in Italian paintings, Renaissance sculpture, cassoni and other Renaissance and Cinquecento furnishings and architectural fragments that came on the market during the urbanistic reorganization of Florence in the...

 
Chiesa dei Sette Santi Fondatori  1901–1910 Luigi Caldini 
Palazzo Pola e Todescan  1901–1903 Giuseppe Paciarelli 
Palazzo delle Poste  1904–1914 Rodolfo Sabatini and others
Ricostruzione del Palazzo dell'Arte della Lana  1905 Enrico Lusini 
Villino Lampredi  1907–1910 Giovanni Michelazzi 
Villino Broggi-Caraceni  1910–1911 Giovanni Michelazzi 
Casa-galleria Vichi  1911 Giovanni Michelazzi 
Galleria Rinaldo Carnielo  1911–1912 Rinaldo Carnielo?
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze  1911–1935 Cesare Bazzani 

Modern and contemporary architecture (late-20th century)

Image Building Date Architect Notes
Centrale termica e cabina apparati centrali  1929–1934 Angiolo Mazzoni
Angiolo Mazzoni
Angiolo Mazzoni was a prolific state architect and engineer of the Italian Fascist government of the 1920s and 1930s.Mazzoni designed hundreds of public buildings, post offices and train stations during the Interwar period in Italy...

 
Stadio Artemio Franchi  1929–1932 Pier Luigi Nervi
Pier Luigi Nervi
Pier Luigi Nervi was an Italian engineer. He studied at the University of Bologna and qualified in 1913. Dr. Nervi taught as a professor of engineering at Rome University from 1946-61...

 
Santa Maria Novella station
Santa Maria Novella Station
Firenze Santa Maria Novella or Stazione di Santa Maria Novella - Firenze SMN is the main national and international train station in Florence, Italy...

 
1932–1934 Gruppo Toscano 
Casa del Mutilato  1934–1936 Rodolfo Sabatini 
Palazzina Reale di Santa Maria Novella  c. 1935 Giovanni Michelucci
Giovanni Michelucci
Giovanni Michelucci was an Italian architect, urban planner and engraver. He was one of the major Italian architects of the 20th century, known for notable projects such as the Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station and the San Giovanni Battista church on the Autostrada del Sole....

 
Scuola di guerra aerea  1937–1938 Raffaello Fagnoni 
Manifattura Tabacchi and Teatro Puccini  1939–1940 Ufficio tecnico dei Monopoli di Stato
Ponte alle Grazie
Ponte alle Grazie
Ponte alle Grazie is a bridge over the Arno River in Florence, Italy.The original Ponte alle Grazie was constructed in 1227. It was rebuilt in 1345 with nine arches, making it the oldest and longest bridge in Florence. Two of the arches were filled in during 1347 in order to widen piazza dei Mozzi...

 
1946–1953 Giovanni Michelucci
Giovanni Michelucci
Giovanni Michelucci was an Italian architect, urban planner and engraver. He was one of the major Italian architects of the 20th century, known for notable projects such as the Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station and the San Giovanni Battista church on the Autostrada del Sole....

, Edoardo Detti and others
Reconstruction of edifices near the Ponte Vecchio (see Borgo San Jacopo) from 1950 Italo Gamberini and municipal technical offices
Residential complex at Monterinaldi  1952–1962 Leonardo Ricci and others
Headquarters of the Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze  1953–1957 Giovanni Michelucci
Giovanni Michelucci
Giovanni Michelucci was an Italian architect, urban planner and engraver. He was one of the major Italian architects of the 20th century, known for notable projects such as the Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station and the San Giovanni Battista church on the Autostrada del Sole....

 
Ponte Vespucci  1954–1957 Riccardo Morandi
Riccardo Morandi
Riccardo Morandi was an Italian civil engineer best known for his interesting use of reinforced concrete. Amongst his best known works were the General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge, an 8 km crossing of Lake Maracaibo incorporating seven cable-stayed bridge spans with unusual piers, and the...

 and others
Chiesa del Sacro Cuore  1956–1962 Lando Bartoli and Pier Luigi Nervi
Pier Luigi Nervi
Pier Luigi Nervi was an Italian engineer. He studied at the University of Bologna and qualified in 1913. Dr. Nervi taught as a professor of engineering at Rome University from 1946-61...

 
Edificio ex-Bica  1957 Italo Gamberini 
Sede della Direzione provinciale delle Poste e Telegrafi  1959–1967 Giovanni Michelucci
Giovanni Michelucci
Giovanni Michelucci was an Italian architect, urban planner and engraver. He was one of the major Italian architects of the 20th century, known for notable projects such as the Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station and the San Giovanni Battista church on the Autostrada del Sole....

 
Chiesa dell'Autostrada  1960–1964 Giovanni Michelucci
Giovanni Michelucci
Giovanni Michelucci was an Italian architect, urban planner and engraver. He was one of the major Italian architects of the 20th century, known for notable projects such as the Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station and the San Giovanni Battista church on the Autostrada del Sole....

 
Headquarters of La Nazione
La Nazione
La Nazione is one of the oldest regional newspapers in Italy. It merged with Cavour's famous political newspaper, Il Risorgimento, in 1849. Based in Florence, Italy, it is published in numerous local editions for the regions of Tuscany, Umbria and for the Province of La Spezia in Liguria.-...

1961–1966 Pier Luigi Spadolini and others
RAI regional seat 1962–1968 Italo Gamberini 
Sorgane  1962–1980 Leonardo Ricci, Leonardo Savioli and others
Edificio residenziale di via Piagentina  1964–1967 Leonardo Savioli and Danilo Santi 
Villa Bayon  1966 Leonardo Savioli
Ponte Giovanni da Verrazzano  1967–1969 Leonardo Savioli and others
Palazzo ex-Nuova Italia  1968–1972 Edoardo Detti 
Ponte all'Indiano  1969–1976 Fabrizio De Mirandola, Paolo Sica and Adriano Montemagni 
Centro Leasing  1972 Silvano Zorzi and Augusto Bianco 
Archivio di Stato di Firenze  1972–1978 Italo Gamberini and others
Residential building in piazza San Jacopino 1973–1976 Marco Dezzi Bardeschi 
Santa Maria Novella bus terminal 1987–1990 Cristiano Toraldo di Francia 
Parterre  1992–1993 Paolo Antonio Martini 

21st century

Image Building Date Architect Notes
Piazza Bambine e Bambini di Beslan  2004 
Ex-Carcere delle Murate (new piazza Madonna della Neve) 2004  Renzo Piano
Renzo Piano
Renzo Piano is an Italian architect. He is the recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, AIA Gold Medal, Kyoto Prize and the Sonning Prize...

 (guidelines)
Polo delle Scienze Sociali di Novoli  2004 
Casa dello Studente  2004 
Palazzo di Giustizia  2000-2009 (under construction) Leonardo Ricci 
Parco urbano ex-Fiat  (under construction)
Area ex-Longinotti  2001-2004  Adolfo Natalini 
Stazione di Firenze Belfiore, for high-speed transport (project?) Norman Foster
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank
Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, OM is a British architect whose company maintains an international design practice, Foster + Partners....

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