stiozzi

Updated: May 16, 2025

Well, now you must ask for the Sacristan, who is civil and nice enough, and get him to let you into the green cloister, and then go into the less cloister opening out of it on the right, as you go down the steps; and you must ask for the tomb of the Marcheza Stiozzi Ridolfi; and in the recess behind the Marcheza's tomb very close to the ground, and in excellent light, if the day is fine you will see two small frescos, only about four feet wide each, in odd-shaped bits of wall quarters of circles; representing that on the left, the Meeting of Joachim and Anna at the Golden Gate; and that on the right, the Birth of the Virgin.

John Ruskin - Mornings in Florence