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The leather school tucked away behind the church of Santa Croce’s sacristy (in what was once Franciscan monk’s cells) is still around, allowing you a glimpse at the traditional making of leather goods such as handbags, wallets, gloves, belts, and desk accessories.
At the back of the cloister of Santa Croce’s Franciscan monastery adjoining the church, Brunelleschi’s Pazzi Chapel (Cappella dei Pazzi) is a little gem of Renaissance elegance designed in 1443.
In the Gondi Chapel (left of the high altar), the Brunelleschi Crucifixion (1410), his only scultpure in wood, brings to the human body a characteristic idealized harmony, compared with Donatello’s more personal piece in the church of Santa Croce (see page 87).
The most cherished treasure in the Santa Croce Museum is Cimabue’s 13th-century massive Crucifixion, rescued and painstakingly restored after the town’s catastrophic 1966 flood.
He was "America's first great native born ballet choreographer" (Terry Teachout, Time ). Critics remember his unrelenting perfectionism (some say meanness) and his audacious style, which "typified the make-way-for-youth spirit of the era" (Arlene Croce, The New Yorker ).