Former Convent of Sant’Onofrio – Florence
The convent was originally called “di Fuligno” (a title that will also give its name to the famous Cenacolo painted there), because the Franciscan nuns who occupied it starting from 1419 came from Umbria, while previously, in 1316, it housed a group of Augustinian nuns.
The complex was renovated and decorated within the first thirty years of the fifteenth century, thanks to the noble nuns Sister Onofria de’ Conti d’Abruzzo and Sister Joan of Onofrio degli Onofri who give great impetus to the convent, in which many Florentine noblewomen also enter. The frescoes decoration by Bicci di Lorenzo dates back to that period, followed by the pictorial intervention of Pietro Vannucci called “Perugino”.
The convent, suppressed in 1800, was later used as a boarding school for women.
Today, in addition to the Museum, it houses the ASP, a Public Company for Personal Services.
