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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.
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.
The country’s, indeed Europe’s, finest craftsmen once clustered in small leather workshops around San Lorenzo and Santa Croce, but goods now come mostly from factories in the periphery.
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).
Foremost is the Basilica of the Holy Cross (Santa Croce), the city’s best example of its Baroque heyday, and the Piazza del Duomo, ringed by the rebuilt cathedral and neighboring buildings of similar pedigree.
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