Italy, Florence Basilica San Lorenzo (Basilica of Saint Lawrence)
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The Basilica di San Lorenzo (Basilica of St Lawrence) is one of the largest churches of Florence.
San Lorenzo was also the parish church of the Medici family. In 1419, Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici offered to finance a new church to replace the 11th-century Romanesque rebuilding. Filippo Brunelleschi, the leading Renaissance architect of the first half of the 15th century, was commissioned to design it, but the building, with alterations, was not completed until after his death.
Firenze - Basilica di San Lorenzo e Museo del Tesoro di San Lorenzo
La Basilica di San Lorenzo è uno dei principali luoghi di culto cattolici di Firenze, situata nell'omonima piazza nel centro storico della città. È una delle chiese che si contendono il titolo di più antica della città ed ha la dignità di Basilica minore. L'interno della Basilica di San Lorenzo è diviso in 3 navate ed ogni navata è composta da arcate: tutto questo, grazie anche ai candidi colori, crea un'atmosfera suggestiva.
La chiesa fu abbellita dai più famosi artisti fiorentini dell'epoca e tutt'oggi risulta integra nonostante i vari rifacimenti del XIX . La visita della Basilica prosegue con la Sagrestia Vecchia e Museo del tesoro.
La Sagrestia Nuova fa parte del Museo delle Cappelle Medicee, al quale si accede da Piazza Madonna degli Aldobrandini ed ha un biglietto a parte.
Medici Chapels, Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence, Tuscany, Italy, Europe
The Medici Chapels (Cappelle medicee) are two structures at the Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence, Italy, dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, and built as extensions to Brunelleschi's 15th-century church, with the purpose of celebrating the Medici family, patrons of the church and Grand Dukes of Tuscany. The Sagrestia Nuova, (New Sacristy), was designed by Michelangelo. The larger Cappella dei Principi, (Chapel of the Princes), though proposed in the 16th century, was not begun until the early 17th century, its design being a collaboration between the family and architects. The Sagrestia Nuova was intended by Cardinal Giulio de' Medici and his cousin Pope Leo X as a mausoleum or mortuary chapel for members of the Medici family. It balances Brunelleschi's Sagrestia Vecchia, the Old Sacristy nestled between the left transept of San Lorenzo, with which it consciously competes, and shares its format of a cubical space surmounted by a dome, of gray pietra serena and whitewashed walls. It was the first essay in architecture (1521--24) of Michelangelo, who also designed its monuments dedicated to certain members of the Medici family, with sculptural figures of the four times of day that were destined to influence sculptural figures reclining on architraves for many generations to come. The Sagrestia Nuova was entered by a discreet entrance in a corner of San Lorenzo's right transept, now closed. Though it was vaulted over by 1524, the ambitious projects of its sculpture and the intervention of events, such as the temporary exile of the Medici (1527), the death of Giulio, now Pope Clement VII and the permanent departure of Michelangelo for Rome in 1534, meant that Michelangelo never finished it. Though most of the statues had been carved by the time of Michelangelo's departure, they had not been put in place, being left in disarray across the chapel, and later installed by Niccolò Tribolo in 1545. By order of Cosimo I, Giorgio Vasari and Bartolomeo Ammannati finished the work by 1555. There were intended to be four Medici tombs, but those of Lorenzo the Magnificent and his brother Giuliano (modestly buried beneath the altar at the entrance wall) were never begun. The result is that the two magnificent existing tombs are those of comparatively insignificant Medici: Lorenzo di Piero, Duke of Urbino and Giuliano di Lorenzo, Duke of Nemours. Their architectural components are similar; their sculptures offer contrast. On an unfinished wall, Michelangelo's Madonna and Child flanked by the Medici patron saints Cosmas and Damian, executed by Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli and Raffaello da Montelupo respectively, to Michelangelo's models, are set over their plain rectangular tomb. A concealed corridor with drawings on the walls by Michelangelo was discovered under the New Sacristy in 1976. The octagonal Cappella dei Principi surmounted by a tall dome, 59 m. high, is the distinguishing feature of San Lorenzo when seen from a distance. It is on the same axis as the nave and chancel to which it provides the equivalent of an apsidal chapel. Its entrance is from the exterior, in Piazza Madonna degli Aldobrandini, and through the low vaulted crypt planned by Bernardo Buontalenti before plans for the chapel above were made.
The opulent Cappella dei Principi, an idea formulated by Cosimo I, was put into effect by Ferdinand I de' Medici. It was designed by Matteo Nigetti, following some sketches tendered to an informal competition of 1602 by Don Giovanni de' Medici, the natural son of Cosimo I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, which were altered in the execution by the aged Buontalenti. A true expression of court art, it was the result of collaboration among designers and patrons. For the execution of its astonishing revetment of marbles inlaid with colored marbles and semi-precious stone, the Grand Ducal hardstone workshop, the Opificio delle Pietre Dure was established. The art of commessi, as it was called in Florence, assembled jig-sawn fragments of specimen stones to form the designs of the revetment that entirely cover the walls. The result was disapproved of by 18th and 19th century visitors, but has come to be appreciated for an example of the taste of its time. Six grand sarcophagi are empty; the Medici remains are interred in the crypt below. In sixteen compartments of the dado are coats-of-arms of Tuscan cities under Medici control. In the niches that were intended to hold portrait sculptures of Medici, two (Ferdinando I and Cosimo II) were executed by Pietro Tacca (1626--42).
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“The Basilica di San Lorenzo (Basilica of St Lawrence) is one of the largest churches of Florence, Italy, situated at the center of the city’s main market district, and the burial place of all the principal members of the Medici family from Cosimo il Vecchio to Cosimo III. It is one of several churches that claim to be the oldest in Florence; when it was consecrated in 393 it stood outside the city walls. For three hundred years it was the city's cathedral before the official seat of the bishop was transferred to Santa Reparata. San Lorenzo was also the parish church of the Medici family. In 1419, Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici offered to finance a new church to replace the 11th-century Romanesque rebuilding. Filippo Brunelleschi, the leading Renaissance architect of the first half of the 15th century, was commissioned to design it, but the building, with alterations, was not completed until after his death. The church is part of a larger monastic complex that contains other important architectural and artistic works: the Old Sacristy by Brunelleschi, with interior decoration and sculpture by Donatello; the Laurentian Library by Michelangelo; the New Sacristy based on Michelangelo's designs; and the Medici Chapels by Matteo Nigetti.”
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Basilica di San Lorenzo (Basilica of St Lawrence) is one of the largest churches of Florence, Italy
The Basilica di San Lorenzo (Basilica of St Lawrence) is one of the largest churches of Florence, Italy, situated at the centre of the city’s main market district, and the burial place of all the principal members of the Medici family from Cosimo il Vecchio to Cosimo III. It is one of several churches that claim to be the oldest in Florence; when it was consecrated in 393 it stood outside the city walls. For three hundred years it was the city's cathedral before the official seat of the bishop was transferred to Santa Reparata. San Lorenzo was also the parish church of the Medici family. In 1419, Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici offered to finance a new church to replace the 11th-century Romanesque rebuilding. Filippo Brunelleschi, the leading Renaissance architect of the first half of the 15th century, was commissioned to design it, but the building, with alterations, was not completed until after his death. The church is part of a larger monastic complex that contains other important architectural and artistic works: the Old Sacristy by Brunelleschi, with interior decoration and sculpture by Donatello; the Laurentian Library by Michelangelo; the New Sacristy based on Michelangelo's designs; and the Medici Chapels by Matteo Nigetti. Though considered a milestone in the development of Renaissance architecture, S. Lorenzo has a complicated building history. Even though it was built – at least partially - under the direction of Filippo Brunelleschi, it is not purely of his design. The project was begun around 1419, but lack of funding slowed down the construction and forced changes to the original design. By the early 1440s, only the sacristy (now called the Old Sacristy) had been worked on as that and the church was being paid for by the Medici. In 1442, the Medici stepped in to take over financial responsibility of the church as well. Brunelleschi died, however, in 1446 and the job was handed over either to Antonio Manetti or to Michelozzo; scholars are not certain. Though the building was “completed” in 1459 in time for a visit to Florence by Pius II, the chapels along the right-hand aisles were still being built in the 1480s and 1490s. By the time the building was done, many aspects of its layout, not to mention detailing, no longer corresponded to the original plan. The principal difference is that Brunelleschi had envisioned the chapels along the side aisles to be deeper, and to be much like the chapels in the transept, the only part of the building that is known to have been designed by Brunelleschi.
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Superata la rustica facciata grezza, l’interno di San Lorenzo ti dà una grande emozione. Ti si apre davanti una luminosa struttura ispirata all’antichità classica, uno dei monumenti più rappresentativi della “età dell’oro” del ’400 fiorentino.
Il geniale architetto Filippo Brunelleschi ha progettato un edificio di profonda armonia, alternando il bianco degli intonaci al grigio della pietra serena, uno dei suoi materiali prediletti. Guarda l’eleganza delle due file di colonne, del soffitto a cassettoni, delle arcate, delle alte finestre che danno luce alla parte centrale. Osserva con attenzione l’eccezionale raffinatezza degli elementi scolpiti, come per esempio i capitelli che simulano cesti di fogliame, ispirati allo stile dell’antica architettura greca chiamato “corinzio”, o le cornici intorno alle cappelle che si susseguono con regolarità sui due lati.
Molte sono le opere d’arte di grande fascino, che fanno di San Lorenzo un vero museo della scultura e della pittura fiorentina quattro-cinquecentesca. Ti segnalo in particolare la bella Annunciazione dipinta da Filippo Lippi, che puoi trovare in una cappella in fondo a sinistra, e, lì vicino, il grande affresco di Bronzino raffigurante il Martirio di San Lorenzo. Un altro dipinto interessante è lo Sposalizio della Vergine del Rosso Fiorentino, sul secondo altare a destra.
Ma il capolavoro assoluto che non puoi assolutamente tralasciare sono i due pulpiti rettangolari in bronzo, sostenuti da colonne, che vedi uno di fronte all’altro in fondo alla navata centrale. Sono le ultime opere di Donatello, rimaste incompiute alla sua morte nel 1466 e terminate da allievi: il grande scultore, ormai ottantenne, del tutto libero da obblighi e convenzioni, scolpisce con grande energia e originalità episodi della vita di Gesù e di San Lorenzo, con un travolgente senso drammatico e una forte teatralità...
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Italy, Florence - Old Sacristy in San Lorenzo Basilica
Photographer:Samuel Magal (samuel@sites-and-photos.com)
The Sagrestia Vecchia, or Old Sacristy, the structure was begun 1421 and largely complete in 1440. When finished, it was, however, quite isolated, the reason being that construction for the new building for San Lorenzo, the design for which Brunelleschi was also responsible, was not far along. It was only in the years after 1459 that the Old Sacristy was unified with San Lorenzo. one of the most important monuments of the early Italian Renaissance architecture.
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The Basilica di San Lorenzo is one of the largest churches of Florence, Italy, situated at the centre of the city’s main market district, and the burial place of all the principal members of the Medici family from Cosimo il Vecchio to Cosimo III.
It is one of several churches that claim to be the oldest in Florence; when it was consecrated in 393 it stood outside the city walls. For three hundred years it was the city's cathedral before the official seat of the bishop was transferred to Santa Reparata. San Lorenzo was also the parish church of the Medici family.
In 1419, Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici offered to finance a new church to replace the 11th-century Romanesque rebuilding. Filippo Brunelleschi, the leading Renaissance architect of the first half of the 15th century, was commissioned to design it, but the building, with alterations, was not completed until after his death. The church is part of a larger monastic complex that contains other important architectural and artistic works: the Old Sacristy by Brunelleschi, with interior decoration and sculpture by Donatello; the Laurentian Library by Michelangelo; the New Sacristy based on Michelangelo's designs; and the Medici Chapels by Matteo Nigetti.
Though considered a milestone in the development of Renaissance architecture, S. Lorenzo has a complicated building history. Even though it was at least partially built under the direction of Filippo Brunelleschi, it is not purely of his design. The project was begun around 1419, but lack of funding slowed the construction and forced changes to the original design.
The most celebrated and grandest part of San Lorenzo are the Cappelle Medicee (Medici Chapels) in the apse. The Medici were still paying for it when the last member of the family, Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, died in 1743. Almost fifty lesser members of the family are buried in the crypt.
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- ... We found many of the Italian churches' exterior was more impressive than their interiors, except for the Basilica di San Lorenzo, the Medici family (who also owned the majority of the art in the Uffizi) church, who's interior ...
- ... So, I went down past Piazza San Marco (does every Italian city have one of those?) and into the Basilica di San Lorenzo, another one of those ancient cathedrals the Italians seem to love so much ...
- ... From here we made our way to the Basilica di San Lorenzo where the highlight was a collection of Donatello sculptures ...
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- ... The following day we visited the Medici-dominated Basilica di San Lorenzo, as it was just down the street, but took more interest in the surrounding market than the building itself ...
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The Basilica di San Lorenzo (Basilica of St Lawrence) is one of the largest churches of Florence, Italy, situated at the centre of the city's main market district, and the burial place of all the principal members of the Medici family from Cosimo il Vecchio to Cosimo III. It is one of several churches that claim to be the oldest in Florence; when it was consecrated in 393 it stood outside the city walls.
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San Lorenzo è un complesso artistico ed architettonico fra i più vivaci di Firenze!
La chiesa sorge su un ampio podio a gradinata, nella piazza dietro Palazzo Medici. Davanti alla facciata grezza si trova il monumento cinquecentesco al condottiero Giovanni dalle Bande Nere raffigurato seduto, ma farai un po’ fatica a notare la statua nella confusione del mercato di abbigliamento e di accessori che ferve nella piazza.
Stai per visitare un grande complesso rinascimentale, ma devi sapere che la basilica risale a molto prima: si tratta infatti del più antico luogo di culto cristiano a Firenze, costruito fuori dal quadrilatero delle mura romane.
La grande chiesa a forma di croce che hai davanti risale alla prima metà del ’400. Fu voluta dalla famiglia Medici e progettata dal grande Filippo Brunelleschi, autore della cupola del Duomo e della Sagrestia Vecchia, sulla sinistra. Il cantiere andò per le lunghe, e alla morte dell’architetto era ancora incompiuto. Circa un secolo dopo, il progetto della facciata venne affidato a un altro mostro sacro, Michelangelo. Per il rivestimento, il grande scultore avrebbe voluto usare i marmi delle cave di Pietrasanta, ma il papa Leone X de’ Medici gli impose quelle di Serravezza, che però non aveva strade di comunicazione. Questo fece lievitare i costi, i tempi si allungarono, e alla fine San Lorenzo restò senza facciata, così come la vedi adesso...
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Florence's San Lorenzo Basilica
The Basilica of San Lorenzo is located in Florence's market district, and is one of the city's largest churches, and houses the bodies of the Medici family from Cosimo I to Cosimo III, as well as artwork by Michelangelo, Brunelleschi, and others.
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The Basilica di San Lorenzo (Basilica of St Lawrence) is one of the largest churches of Florence which is well known as the burial place of all the principal members of the Medici family from Cosimo il Vecchio to Cosimo III.
San Lorenzo was also the parish church of the Medici family. The church is part of a larger monastic complex that contains other important architectural and artistic works: the Old Sacristy by Brunelleschi, with interior decoration and sculpture by Donatello; the Laurentian Library by Michelangelo; the New Sacristy based on Michelangelo's designs; and the Medici Chapels by Matteo Nigetti.- Wikipedia