CAPPELLA PAZZI 2: INTERIOR

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Title	CAPPELLA PAZZI 2: INTERIOR
View	The scarsella (altar recess), looking up at dome and windows above altar
Notes	religious
Work Type	chapel
Style/Period	Early Renaissance
Creator Name	Brunelleschi, Filippo
Creator Nationality	Italian
School of Creator	Early Renaissance
Date.Creator Birth	1377
Date.Creator Death	1446
Major Design Aspects	symbolic harmonious geometric
Elements & Spatial Types	rosette patera scarsella fluted pilaster glazed terra-cotta roundel
Climate Type	Mediterranean
Country	Italy
City	Florence
State/Province	Tuscany
Alternate Place Names	Santa Croce
Architectural Material	stone, pietra serena
Structural System	bearing stone
Dates	1429-1461
Century	15C
Photographer	Scott Gilchrist, Archivision
Date Photographed	9/30/1994
Subject Information	The Cappella Pazzi is now known to be not wholly the work of Brunelleschi and much altered. The portico is autonomous and added long after Brunelleschi's death and contrary to his intention. The original facade is behind the portico. The chapel is substantially a replica of Brunelleschi's Old Sacristy at San Lorenzo, transformed from a square to an oblong plan by extra bays at the sides. research by Olga M. Williams-Klement for Archivision / ''The chapel (not the portico)...as the Sala del Capitolo, because every day a chapter of the rules of the Franciscan Order was read aloud there. Andrea de'Pazzi made a substantial donation to obtain the right for members of his family to be buried there, but no one ever was because after their unsuccessful conspiracy in 1478, the whole family was exiled...this chapel is said to have achieved 'a harmony of square and circle'.' Source: www.terraditoscana.com/hannibal/uk/pages/vedere/cap-pazzi.htm / 'In the picturesque cloister to the side of the Church of Santa Croce one finds one of the greatest works by Filippo Brunelleschi: the Pazzi Chapel. It dates from just three years before the death of the architect (1443). The plan of the chapel is again the circle and the square. A rectangular base is covered with a conical central dome supported by fine 'veiled' vaulting that one also finds in the porch. The spaces are divided up with a geometric lucidity; the white intonaco (plaster) of the walls contrasts with the pilasters in grey 'serene' stone, and the beautiful decorations in glazed terra-cotta which adorn the interior are by Luca della Robbia.' Source: www.arca.net/db/musei/pazzichp.htm
Credit Line	Archivision Inc. (all images copyright Scott Gilchrist / Archivision.com)
Collection Title	Archivision (architecture, urban design, gardens, landscapes and public art)
Collection information	Collection administered by the Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library, (402) 472-1193

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