Ospedale degli Innocenti

The Ospedale degli Innocenti (German: Hospital of the Innocents ) is a Renaissance building in Florence by Filippo Brunelleschi. It is a foundling hospital. Some of the Renaissance with this construction of 1419 was recognized in the art history of the beginning, which took place on behalf of cloth and fur traders guild. The Foundling Hospital is Brunelleschi's first major work, and the first orphanage of its kind ever, foundling as such but older, they are attested in Florence in 1316, 1362 in Paris, 1376 in Freiburg im Breisgau and in 1380 in Ulm. By 1875 you could leave here undetected by a surviving small revolving door unwanted children. Exists in the rear of the property is still an orphanage.

The building is now a small museum with Renaissance works by Luca della Robbia, Sandro Botticelli, Piero di Cosimo and the Adoration of the Shepherds by Domenico Ghirlandaio.

Architecture

This shows at the beginning, the basic principle of the architecture of Brunelleschi and thus the early - Renaissance ever: a clear, tight organization of the components, strict geometric shapes in perspective juxtaposition. Therefore, the expression in art history at Brunelleschi also a " Build ". The individual forms such as the columns and windows do not go into the overall design below but are highlighted as stand-alone elements plastically. They determine the tectonic framework of the building - and that they also had to allow the linear perspective that develops in such elements along. Also in this hospital the gusset areas between the arches are filled with Tondi, has placed in the Andrea della Robbia terracotta figures of small children. The collaboration between the two artists here at the orphanage has been repeated later in the Pazzi Chapel. Here the " column as an architectural allegory of man " appears for the first time since antiquity, and of this home went out for a new and spreading all over Europe columnar architecture.