History
Between the Dome and  Old Palace since VIII the century existed a feminine monastero with goes lands to you cultivates to you to "garden" called "Saint Michele in Garden". From the name that "Orsanmichele" originates them drift just puts into effect them.

Around to the 1240 church it came pulled down in order to probably make R-al.mercato place to one loggia destined of the granaglie planned from Arnolfo di Cambio around 1290. In the 1304 loggia it was destroyed from a fire and it newly came reconstructed between 1227 and the 1350 from the Talents, Black of Fioravante and Benci di Cione, larger and to rectangular plant. On the external pillars the city corporations of the Limbs and Trades, in the 1339 made to predispose 14 tabernacoli in which they lodged as many statues of knows patrons to you carved from the best artists of the period.

Orsanmichele, inside Between the 1380 and 1404 building came sopraelevato of two plans in order to accommodate the grain reservoirs, and came therefore sluices arched of the downstairs from Simone the Talents in order to accommodate a cult building to you, newly dedicated to Saint Michele
The building was confraternita center of the powerful one of the Madonna di San Michele in Garden. In the 1569 granduca Cosimo insediò to the advanced plans the Notarial Archives (today moved), entrusting the adaptation of the halls to the Buontalenti.

The Orsanmichele has endured important restorations from the half of XIX the century until today. In the 1996 divenne omonimo accommodating museum the orginali statues removed from the external and restored niches. To the last one slowly the forty small sculptures are collections inevce that the external colonnine of the trifore decorated, seppur by now already a lot damaged from the atmospheric and nearly illeggibili agents.
In the angle north the west, to the inside of the pillar, there is one small and steep scale to chioccola that door to the advanced plans. Being uncertain for the modern ones canoni it is approached from the forehead building, that one of the "Art of the Wool" passanto for the bow that connects the two palaces.

It knows it inferior it accommodates the church dedicated to Sant' Anna, that it has a rarest structure to two navate, inheritance of the structure of the market of the grain, and is covered from six times to cruise that support the advanced halls. To the inside one finds the tabernacolo constructed from Andrea Orcagna between 1349 and 1359 in order to accommodate the Vergine with the Child and the Angels (painted of Bernardo Daddi of 1347), that it replaced a miraculous image, the Madonna di Orsanmichele (of Ugolino from Siena) a time placed on the pillars of before loggia and probably burnt in the fire of 1304.

"It frescoes of XV the century (covered from a plastering in XVIII the century and riscoperti during the restorations of XIX the century) adorn i pillars, some of the walls and the segments of the times. The pittorico cycle of the times, executed in 1398-1399 represents personages of the Ancient one and the New Testament, second a iconografico program conceived from Franc Bags. On the lunette of the trifore present they are vetrate of XIV the century, operates of Niccolò di German Peter with history of the miracles of Maria and the miraculous image of the Madonna di Orsanmichele. On the altar of Sant' Anna the scultoreo group in marble with the Vergine with Bambino and Sant' is found Anna, work of Francisco di Giuliano from Sangallo (1526); This replaces an image painted commissioned from the Lordship in thanks for the hunting from Florence di Gualtieri di Brienne, famous like Duca d' Atene, that popular sollevazione had beginning with one the day of Sant' Anna, the 26 July 1343."