The most charismatic of Santa Maria Novella’s artistic ghosts left no visible trace there. Alberti was one of the pioneers of the Renaissance dream of reviving the glories of ancient Greece and Rome. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Santa Maria Novella church in central Florence. In March 1944 a train left Santa Maria Novella station, just across the piazza from the church, en route for the death camps. Santa Maria Novella shows just how much there is to lose from rolling back the Renaissance dream of European civilisation.

Source: The Guardian September 22, 2017 14:51 UTC