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	NGA - Monumental Sculpture from Renaissance Florence
		Orsanmichele was one of the three most important buildings in late medieval Florence, along with the cathedral Santa Maria del Fiore (Il Duomo) and the Palazzo della Signoria.
		In 1291 a lay confraternity, the Compagnia della Madonna di Orsanmichele, was formed to sing hymns to the Virgin and administer the considerable charitable donations that the miraculous image attracted.
		Two years later the guilds sponsored legislation that made Orsanmichele something of an official guild center by decreeing that the seven major guilds, plus the five most important minor guilds, should be charged with decorating twelve exterior pilaster faces of the loggia of Orsanmichele with images of their patron saints.
	www.nga.gov /exhibitions/2005/orsanmichele/orsanmichele.shtm (819 words)

	Orsanmichele Church and Museum Florence Italy
		The patron saints of the individual guilds, massed together on the four sides of the building, thus became the patron saints of the church of Orsanmichele itself.
		The statues are currently being restored one by one and moved to the upper floor of the former granary, now the Museum of Orsanmichele (reached by the bridge from the adjacent Palazzo dell’Arte della Lana), their places in the niches being filled by copies.
		The interior of Orsanmichele preserves its late gothic appearance almost intact: its square layout and the positioning of the piers recall the arrangement of the original open loggia.
	www.museumsinflorence.com /musei/orsanmichele.html (709 words)

	Foundation For Italian Art and Culture
		In 1984 the Opificio delle Pietre Dure began to restore all the marble and bronze sculptures in the fourteen niches on the outside of the church of Orsanmichele in Florence; with this year’s restoration of Lorenzo Ghiberti’s bronze statue of Saint Matthew, the project is drawing to a close.
		A former grain market, Orsanmichele became a church in the fourteenth century, while preserving its civic vocation by becoming the religious center of the Arts [le Arti], the powerful crafts guilds which played a prominent role in the city’s politics and economy.
		In being cleaned, the bronzes of Orsanmichele — whose constituent material is in a better state of conservation than the marble — have also recovered the softness and luminosity of the original metal forms, which likewise show traces of lacquer gilding.
	www.fiacfoundation.org /HTML/projects/current/orsanmichele.html (763 words)

	Toscane.nl - Orsanmichele - Florence (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Toscane.nl // Cultuur // Bezienswaardig // Orsanmichele - Florence
		Orsanmichele was oorspronkelijk een open loggia rond de centrale graanmarkt van Florence.
		Orsanmichele ligt in het hart van Florence aan een as die loopt van de kathedraal naar stadhuis.
	www.toscane.nl /main.php/main.php/main.php/main.php/main.php/?id=1:253 (595 words)

	NGA - Monumental Sculpture from Renaissance Florence
		The looming monumental statues by Nanni di Banco, Donatello, and Ghiberti in the exterior niches of the church of Orsanmichele in Florence are the first fully realized Renaissance works of art.
		With these works, the new and revolutionary Renaissance style was born, which, at Orsanmichele, culminated with the sculpture of Verrocchio.
		The exhibition at the National Gallery of Art celebrates the completion of the conservation of the statues, performed under the supervision of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Florence.
	www.nga.gov /exhibitions/2005/orsanmichele/index.shtm (169 words)

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