The church was built by the Domenican friars between 1279 and 1357. The Romanesque-Gothic facade in white and green marble was completed by Leon Battista Alberti, who designed all of the upper part. The grandious interior, with three naves divided by pillars of various styles, contains splendid works of art: Masaccio's Trinity, Filippo Lippi's frescoes, frescoes by Ghirlandaio in the Tornabuoni Chapel, Giotto's crucifix and Brunelleschi's wooden crucifix. Adjacent to the church is the entrance to the Santa Maria Novella Museum, which contains the splendid Green Chapel. Its name derives from the color dominanting the cycle of Biblical frescoes by Paolo Uccello. In the Capitolare ("Capitulation") Room, also known as the Spanish Chapel (Cappellone degli Spagnoli), one can see a well'known fresco by Andrea di Bonaiuto (mid fourteenth century) that portrays the Domenicans in the semblance of dogs ("cane"): "domini canes." Annexed to the Green Cloister are the Cloister of the Dead and the Strozzi Chapel, the latter decorated with fourteenth-century frescoes.

Below are pictures of the inside of the Church

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