Dome

View looking straight up, depicting all 8 frescoes in the ceiling by Benvenuti completed in 1830 (from bottom moving clockwise: 1) The Nativity 2) Noah's sacrifice 3) Cain and Abel 4) The Fall 5) Adam & Eve 6) Last Judgment 7) Resurrection 8) Crucifixion; Frescos by Pietro Benvenuti. Medici hegemony at S Lorenzo was finally proclaimed in the building of the Cappella dei Principi, begun by Matteo Nigetti to a revised design of Giovanni de' Medici during the early years of the 17th century. This grandiose mausoleum was executed during the 17th century and into the 18th, and it is the burial place of the Medici grand dukes. Designed as a vaulted, octagonal space entirely clad with dark-coloured marble and pietre dure, it represents the Baroque ending to a project originally conceived at the height of the Renaissance classical ideal. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/ (accessed 1/12/2008)