The Bardini Museum, located in via de 'Renai on the corner of piazza de' Mozzi in the Oltrarno district of Florence, is one of the rich so-called "minor" museums in the city. The museum, which has access in via dei Renai 37 (and exit in the historical entrance of piazza dei Mozzi 1), constitutes the testamentary legacy of the antiquarian Stefano Bardini (1836-1922) to the Municipality of Florence.
Bardini built the palace that houses the museum in 1880, purchasing a complex of buildings from various eras, including the deconsecrated church of San Gregorio della Pace, built between 1273 and 1279 on land belonging to the Mozzi bankers at the behest of Pope Gregorio X in celebration of peace between Guelphs and Ghibellines. Passed under the patronage of the Bardi, in 1600 the church was ceded to the Clerics Regular Ministers of the Sick or Fathers of Ben Morire; in 1775 the order was suppressed and the church and convent returned to the ownership of the Mozzi family, who in 1880 put them up for sale.
Bardini transformed these buildings into an imposing palace of eclectic taste by using bare materials for the construction: medieval and Renaissance stones, carved lintels, fireplaces and stairways, as well as painted coffered ceilings: the displays of the windows on the first floor of the facade, for example, they come from the altars of a demolished church in Pistoia, San Lorenzo.
Museo Stefano Bardini
Address: Via dei Renai, 37, 50125
Phone: 055 234 2427
Site:
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