{"id":286,"date":"2014-08-10T04:21:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T04:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/?page_id=286"},"modified":"2015-01-05T11:20:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T11:20:51","slug":"churches","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/?page_id=286","title":{"rendered":"Churches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A city steeped in religion, Florence is the home of an impressive array of chapels, churches, and cathedrals, ranging in diversity from the modesty of the most simple chapel to the grandeur of the <a title=\"Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore\" href=\"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/?page_id=466\">Duomo<\/a>. Common, however, to all\u00a0of these, is the extraordinary range of artwork, beautiful and historically significant, which adorns their walls, ceilings and spaces.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The refined elegance of the <a title=\"Pazzi Chapel\" href=\"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/?page_id=468\">Pazzi Chapel<\/a> is depicted above.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of the smallest is the little church of San Martino del Vescovo (or dei <a title=\"The Buonomini\" href=\"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/?page_id=289\">Buonomini<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here are a selection\u00a0of my photographs\u00a0portraying the \u00a0buildings, monuments, artworks and piazzas of various churches, chapels, basilicas and cathedrals. Amongst these are the\u00a0<a title=\"Battistero di San Giovanni\" href=\"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/?page_id=462\">Battistero di San Giovanni<\/a> (Baptistry of St. John); <a title=\"Basilica di San Lorenzo\" href=\"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/?page_id=464\">Basilica di San Lorenzo<\/a>; <a title=\"Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore\" href=\"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/?page_id=466\">Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore<\/a> (the Duomo); <a title=\"Pazzi Chapel\" href=\"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/?page_id=468\">the Pazzi Chapel<\/a>; <a title=\"Santa Maria Maggiore\" href=\"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/?page_id=544\">Santa Maria Maggiore<\/a>; <a title=\"San Marco\" href=\"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/?page_id=552\">San Marco<\/a>; <a title=\"The Buonomini\" href=\"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/?page_id=289\">San Martino del Vescovo<\/a>; <a title=\"Basilica of San Miniato al Monte\" href=\"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/?page_id=593\">San Miniato<\/a>; <a title=\"Santa Croce\" href=\"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/?page_id=460\">Santa Croce<\/a>; <a title=\"Santa Maria Novella\" href=\"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/?page_id=595\">Santa Maria Novella<\/a>; <a title=\"Santa Trinita\" href=\"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/?page_id=606\">Santa Trinita<\/a>; and <a title=\"Santo Spirito\" href=\"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/?page_id=628\">Santa Spirito<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A city steeped in religion, Florence is the home of an impressive array of chapels, churches, and cathedrals, ranging in diversity from the modesty of the most simple chapel to the grandeur of the Duomo. Common, however, to all\u00a0of these, is the extraordinary range of artwork, beautiful and historically significant, which adorns their walls, ceilings &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/?page_id=286\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Churches<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":288,"parent":157,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-286","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1988,"href":"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/286\/revisions\/1988"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}