San Felice

The interior of the church of San Felice.

Beautiful Gothic paintings and a reference in English literature

Giotto's Crucifixion in the church of San Felice, Florence. (Photo by Sailko)

The Crucifix by Giotto and/or his workshop.

This tiny Gothic church just south of the Pitti Palace sports a modest High Renaissance facade by Michelozzo (1457) and a painted Crucifix over the high altar recently attributed to Giotto and his workshop (though some art historians still sniff that it was painted by his workshop or followers only and that the master himself never touched it; still, it's a nice piece).

Also peek at the remnants of Niccolò Gerini's early 15th-century Pietà fresco over the first altar on the right.

Other Gothic greats with altarpieces and frescoes in this little church include Neri di Bicci (a triptych on the sixth altar on the left) and Bicci di Lorenzo.

The Pietà by Niccolò Gerini (or possibly Gherardo Starnina).

The first altar on the left has a triptych by a follower of Botticelli known as "The Master of Apollo and Daphne." (Art historians can often link several paintings as likely being by the same artist whose name is lost to the ages, so he becomes known as "The Master of [his most famous work]".)

The church is perhaps most famous for its shout-out from Elizabeth Barrett Browning in her poem Casa Guidi's Windows—which she wrote she she and Robert Browning lived across the piazza.