Museo di Santa Maria Novella

The museum is located in the old Dominican convent of Santa Maria Novella which, together with the adjacent basilica, is one of the most prestigious complexes of monumental buildings in the city in view of the important historical events of both a civil and religious nature that took place here and the extraordinary quality of its artistic masterpieces.

The cloisters included in the visit show rare examples of fourteenth and fifteenth-century Florentine painting. The most famous is the Chiostro Verde, named after the colour dominating the unusual cycle of fifteenth-century frescoes that decorate the walls with stories from Genesis. The cycle includes important paintings by Paolo Uccello, including his famous masterpiece, the Flood.