Pazzi chapel (Florence)

 chapel, interesting place

Filippo Brunelleschi built the Pazzi chapel as a perfect space with harmonious proportions. He could achieve this result by including in his project-plan the knowledge gained during his stay in Rome when he focused primarily on measuring ancient buildings, for instance the Pantheon.

The chapel was commissioned to Brunelleschi by Andrea de’ Pazzi in 1429 but the works went on also after the death of the architect in 1446 and were never finished because the family suffered the consequences of the conspiracy organized by Jacopo and Francesco de’ Pazzi, together with the archbishop of Pisa Francesco Salviati, against the Medici family. Lorenzo The Magnificent fell in the ambush on April 26th 1478 while he was attending Mass inside the Cathedral together with the brother Giuliano who was killed. www.santacroceopera.it/