COLLECTION NAME:
Archivision Digital Research Library
Record
Title:
Rucellai Chapel
Title:
View within the chamber which contains the shrine
Alternate Title:
Cappella Rucellai
View:
View within the chamber which contains the shrine
Creators:
Giovanni Rucellai (Italian patron, 1475-1525); Leon Battista Alberti (Italian architect, 1404-1472)
Date:
ca. 1464-1467 (creation)
Style/Period:
Renaissance
Location:
site: San Pancrazio (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Location Note:
Via della Spada, behind Palazzo Rucellai
GPS:
+43.771836+11.249975
Culture:
Italian
Materials:
marble; marble inlay; stone
Work Types:
building divisions; rooms and spaces; religious building spaces; chapels (rooms or structures); building divisions; rooms and spaces; religious building spaces; chapels (rooms or structures); sepulchral chapels
Description:
Funerary chapel for the Florentine banker Giovanni Rucellai, who was likely a personal friend of Alberti's. The chapel is covered with a magnificent barrel vault. At the chapel's center stands a small, richly decorated marble-faced structure, articulated with pilasters and crowned with a lantern, and designed in imitation of the structure in Jerusalem that marks the supposed site of Christ's burial. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/)
Classification:
Architecture and City Planning
Technique:
construction (assembling)
Image Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Vendor ID:
1A1-AL-CR-A2
MDID Identifier:
138
Archivision Set:
Archivision Base Collection
Related Work:
part of San Pancrazio
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