Florence: San Lorenzo, The Medici Chapels, and The Laurentian Library
Michelangelo was commissioned by the Medici Pope Leo X to design the facade of San Lorenzo in Carrara marble in 1518. Michelangelo spent two years supervising the quarrying of the finest marble he could find. The project was then cancelled, fortunately, much of the marble made its way inside The New Sacristy.
In 1520, the New Sacristy was panned. Michelangelo supervised the architecture and ran the workshop building the chapel, which was finished in 1524. Michelangelo carved the tombs between 1524 and 1534, when he left Florence for the last time and moved to Rome. The sculptures were not even mounted.
Consider this: Michelangelo spent 24 years working on this tomb at the height of his powers. It only took him a couple of years to carve The David and only four to paint The Sistine Chapel. Granted, he was also involved in other projects, such as building The Laurentian Library in San Lorenzo. He also planned the fortifications of Florence during the war against the very same Pope who had commissioned the tomb!
One can only wonder what else he could have accomplished had he not spent all that time quarrying marble and running a builder’s workshop.
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Michelangelo, Laurentian Library (vestibule and reading room), begun 1524, opened 1571, San Lorenzo, Florence. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
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Your visit of the San Lorenzo complex continues with the convent. Leave the church and enter the passage that is immediately to the left when facing the façade.
After the entrance hall, next you'll reach the First Cloister, an elegant square-shaped space that has been used as part-garden and part-cemetery for centuries. Let your gaze wander over the arched portico and loggia rising up above it: these elements are also part of Brunelleschi's design, even if they were built about thirty years after his death. On the left you'll find the Second Cloister, which is smaller and has a rectangular shape.
At the back of the First Cloister, a passage takes you to part of the convent that in the first half of the fifteenth century was transformed by Michelangelo to house the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, or Laurentian Library, a prestigious collection of manuscripts that are largely decorated with marvelous miniatures.
Together with the New Sacristy on the opposite side of the complex, the Library marks Michelangelo's new direction, who after creating painting and sculpture masterpieces grew increasingly interested in architecture and proposed a new, intense, and dramatic form of expression. The structure's elements no longer follow Brunelleschi's serene and harmonious rhythm, but seem to conflict each other, as if they're contending for the available space…
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Illuminated Manuscripts on display in Florence's Laurentian Library
The Laurentian library's current exhibition Ad usum fratris features a selection of illuminated manuscripts taken from among the 734 codices moved from the library of Santa Croce to the Laurentian Library in 1766.
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The Laurentian Library of Florence is a library built in the sixteenth century by the will of Pope Clement VII and enriched by Lorenzo the Magnificent. Designed by Michelangelo, it preserves one of the largest collections of manuscripts in the world, with 68,405 volumes printed, 406 incunabula, 4058, five hundred and a total of 11,044 priceless manuscripts.
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The Medici Chapels - Florence Italy
???? “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 (1519–24) 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 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 was 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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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).
MICHELANGELO (Reel 1 of 3)
MICHELANGELO (Reel 1 of 3) - National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 43672, LI 242-MID-2074 - DVD Copied by Nick Stoller. Series: Motion Picture Films From G-2 Army Military Intelligence Division, compiled 1918 - ca. 1947. 1936? Reel 1, quarry workers near Carrara, Italy, cut marble blocks and roll them down a hill. Sleds and oxen-drawn wagons transport marble. Shows Michelangelo's work: a bas-relief sculpture of many figures, statues of a mother and child, a pieta, and David at Florence. Reel 2, shows a ship with furled sails at a wharf, unfinished sculptured figures, the Medici Tomb at San Lorenzo, Florence, drawings of early Florence, portraits of the Medici family, and buildings in Florence. Reel 3, scenes of Florence, the ruins of the Roman Forum and Coliseum, buildings in Rome and Vatican City, the dome and interior of St. Peter's Cathedral and the Michelangelo murals in the Sistine Chapel.
ARCH-114, Precedent 2: Laurentian Library by Michelangelo
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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.
A tour of the Complex of San Lorenzo for the 500th anniversary of Cosimo I de’ Medici
Join us on our tour of the Cloister, the Chapter Archive, the Laurentian Library, the Old Sacristy and the New Sacristy. Get an overview of the masterpieces of Brunelleschi, Michelangelo, Vasari and many more, following the footsteps of the Medici family.
Places to see in ( Florence - Italy ) Cappelle Medicee
Places to see in ( Florence - Italy ) Cappelle Medicee
The Medici Chapels 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.
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.
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Places to see in ( Florence - Italy ) Basilica di San Lorenzo
Places to see in ( Florence - Italy ) Basilica di San Lorenzo
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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