The Church of San Barnaba is a Catholic place of worship located in Florence on Via Panicale at the corner with Via Guelfa. Built in 1322, it was named in memory of the victorious Battle of Campaldino against the Aretini, fought on June 11, 1289, the feast day of Saint Barnabas. It hosted numerous monastic orders, both male and female: in 1350, the Augustinians; from the sixteenth century, the Reformed Carmelites; and later, the nuns belonging to the same order. The church is home to the altarpiece of Saint Barnabas by Sandro Botticelli (1487), now in the Uffizi. It features a gabled facade with a pointed arch portal, adorned with various coats of arms: the Municipality of the people and the Guelf Party. For the Guild of Medici and Apothecaries, the glazed polychrome terracotta Madonna and Child, known as the Robbiana Madonna, was created. Inside, the church is decorated with a carved wooden ceiling, a work by Giovanni Vernaccini from 1717, and with stuccoes in the apse area, also from the eighteenth century. The pictorial decoration includes remnants of a fourteenth-century fresco, a sixteenth-century Madonna and Saints attributed to Pier Francesco Foschi, a seventeenth-century Assumption by Fabrizio Boschi, a Flagellation by Giovanni Maria Butteri (recently restored), and a Deposition by Poccetti from 1596.
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