Bigallo
Models
Built in the middle of the fourteenth century, the Oratory of the Misericordia (as it was then known) has endured expansions, fires, renovations, a merger, and more to become the elegant structure that stands on the Piazza del Duomo today. Read more about the structure’s tumultuous history here. Explore the headquarters of one of the city’s most prominent charities, the Confraternity of the Misericordia, later merged with that of the Bigallo, and see the art that it commissioned to assert its place in Florentine society.
Encyclopedia Articles
Art
- Bigallo, The Abandonment and Restitution of Children, Gerini and di Baldese
- Bigallo, Oratory of the Misericordia Altarpiece, Daddi
- Bigallo, Last Judgement, di Cione
- Bigallo Audience Hall
- Bigallo, Triptych, Daddi
- Bigallo, the History of the Loggia
- Bigallo, Madonna and Child with Angels, Arnoldi
- Bigallo, Madonna and Child, Arnoldi
Culture
People
Sources
Primary Source Documents
- Borghigiani - Santa Maria Novella
- Saalman, Bigallo
- Walter and Elisabeth Paatz, Die Kirchen von Florenz, vol. V, 5-18 (English Translation)
- Walter and Elisabeth Paatz, Die Kirchen von Florenz, vol. V, 5-18 (German Translation)
Modern Descriptions
- Del Migliore, Bigallo
- Don Stefano Buonsignori
- Il Bigallo - Un'Istituzione di Beneficenza Fiorentina
- La Loggetta del Bigallo
- Paatz, Baptistery
- Paatz, Bigallo
- Paatz, Orsanmichele
- Richa, Orsanmichele