Pazzi Chapel Roof

The pazzi chapel fits into a timeline of renaissance architectural history like a piece of a puzzle that cannot be removed.
Pazzi chapel roof. Outline of the chapel from piazza santa croce. The way i see it it s part of a series of centrally planned spaces spaces based on squares and circles and perfect geometries a concept first explored by brunelleschi. The pazzi chapel italian. The chapel was built as a chapter house meeting place for the members of a monastery for the convent of santa croce in florence which dates to the italian gothic period.
The pazzi chapel was commissioned in 1429 by the pazzi family a wealthy banking family in florence. Pazzi chapel commentary located on the southern flank of the great franciscan church the pazzi chapel was begun after 1442 although an agreement with brunelleschi may have been made more than a decade earlier the pazzi chapel was designed with a twelve ribbed hemispherical dome on pendentives above a square extended into an oblong by the addition of barrel vaulted bays on two. Pazzi chapel santa croce florence commissioned 1429 built 1442 c 1465 architect. Facade of the pazzi chapel.
Detail of the doric columns. Filippo brunelleschi built the pazzi chapel as a perfect space with harmonious proportions. Lunettes in glaced terracotta with saints. Cappella dei pazzi is a chapel located in the first cloister on the southern flank of the basilica di santa croce in florence italy.