Battistero di San Giovanni

The Florence Baptistery, also known as the Baptistry of St John (Battistero di San Giovanni), abuts both the Piazza del Duomo and the Piazza di San Giovanni, across from Florence Cathedral and the Campanile di Giotto. It is one of the oldest buildings in the city, built between 1059 and 1128 in the Florentine Romanesque style. This style looks forward to the Renaissance as well as retaining a direct link with the architectural traditions of Italian late antiquity.

Battistero di San Giovanni, Florence, 1967, black-and-white photograph, photographer: Lala Aufsberg; source: © SLUB Dresden / Deutsche Fotothek Dresden / Lala Aufsberg, data record 71299246, http://www.deutschefotothek.de/gallery/freitext/71299246.