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dc.coverage.spatialSite: San Lorenzo (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)en_US
dc.coverage.temporal1419-1428 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorBrunelleschi, Filippoen_US
dc.creatorDonatelloen_US
dc.creatorMedici familyen_US
dc.date1419-1428en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-04-26T19:26:34Z
dc.date.available2013-04-26T19:26:34Z
dc.date.issued1419-1428en_US
dc.identifier211239en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 43en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/118856
dc.descriptionView looking up the north wall; The sacristy was designed as the funerary chapel of Giovanni di Averardo de' Medici. It is decorated with terracotta roundels of cherubs by Donatello, who was responsible for much of the sacristy's decoration (ca. 1433-1443), including terracotta reliefs of the Life of St. John the Evangelist and the bronze doors surmounted by terracotta reliefs either side of the small central chapel. "Brunelleschi designed the Sagrestia Vecchia of San Lorenzo ('Old Sacristy' to distinguish it from the 'new' one built in the sixteenth century in the same church by Michelangelo) as a cube surmounted by a hemispherical dome on pendentives, a device he adapted from the Byzantine practice of bridging the corners of the square to provide a circular base for the dome. (The great domed spaces of Renaissance architecture can trace their origins to Brunelleschi's concept.) Ringed by windows at its base, the dome was partitioned by ribs into twelve webs, each with a segmentally curved base line. A smaller cube, similarly vaulted, formed the altar chapel. The dimensions of the sacristy square became the module for the room's proportional scheme linking plan to elevation, and one of Brunelleschi's most influential contributions to the evolution of Renaissance architectural style was the expression of that scheme by the geometric patterns formed by the dark gray stone, known as pietra serena, against the light stucco walls." p 284-285. Source: Trachtenberg, Marvin; Hyman, Isabelle; Architecture, from prehistory to post-modernism : the Western tradition, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1986 (0810910772) (accessed 11/7/2007)en_US
dc.format.mediumstone; pietra serenaen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectural exteriorsen_US
dc.subjectrulers and leadersen_US
dc.subjectMedici familyen_US
dc.subjectRenaissanceen_US
dc.titleSan Lorenzo; Old Sacristyen_US
dc.title.alternativeSagrestia Vecchiaen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A1-BFI-SV-A5en_US
vra.culturalContextItalianen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling) fabrication attributes: ceramicsen_US
vra.worktypechapel (room or structure)en_US
dc.contributor.displayDonatello (Italian sculptor, ca. 1386-1466); Filippo Brunelleschi (Italian architect, 1377-1446); Medici family (Italian patrons, ruled ca. 1434-1737)en_US


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