![]() The left wall shows the life of the Virgin. That workshop may have included Ghirlandaio’s young apprentice Michelangelo. The chapel has a series of frescos created in 1485-90 by Domenico Ghirlandaio and his workshop. It was commissioned by Giovanni Tornabuoni, uncle of Lorenzo de’ Medici, nicknamed il Magnifico. The bays are flanked by green Corinthian columns and bookended with massive striped volutes.īehind the main altar is the Tournabuoni Chapel. The lower half consists of a horizontal shape divided vertically into three bays with three doors and 8 semi circular arches atop the Gothic arches. Alberti combines the two most iconic elements of Roman architecture: the triumphal arch and the temple. The height and width are in a perfect 1:1 ratio. The overall arrangement of the Alberti facade is brilliant. One reason Alberti didn’t do away with it altogether is because the arches rest on sarcophagi that held legally purchased family tombs. Instead, he ingeniously incorporated the pre-existing green and white Gothic band of arches into his own architecture. This Talenti is not to be confused with the architect Talenti who worked on Florence’s Duomo.īut Alberti didn’t demolish the Gothic elements. ![]() By the time Alberti was on the scene, the lowest level of pointed arches was already complete, added by Fra Jacopo Talenti. For a long time, the facade was “undressed,” in raw exposed brownstone like the Basilica of San Lorenzo.
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