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Foundling Hospital (Ospedale degli Innocenti)

ArtistBrunelleschi, Filippo
Artist Info.Italy 1377-1446
ViewOverall view of loggia and façade and Equestrian Grand Duke Ferdinand I de'Medici (r.1587-1609)
SiteFlorence, Piazza SS. Annunziata
LocationItaly
Date1419-26
SubjectArchitecture
PeriodItalian Renaissance
Saskia No.Lib-0160
SourceHartt, Art: A History of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, 4th ed., chapter 20, plate 4
 Hartt, History of Italian Renaissance Art, 4th ed., chapter 6, plate 136
 Lois Fichner-Rathus, Understanding Art, 6th ed., chapter 15, plate 13
 Trachtenberg & Hyman, Architecture, 1st ed., chapter 1, plate 445