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This blog is an art history experiment for our Italian Renaissance travel course. We hope that you, our visitors, will not only take some time to read about what we are studying, but will ALSO feel free to make comments or ask us questions...especially after we see (most of) these things in person. As we travel, we will offer personal reflections on our experiences. After we fly out on the 17th, follow us as we visit Rome (May 18-20), Florence (20-24), and Venice (24-25). We return on Thursday, May 26...just in time for the holiday weekend.

Monday, May 9, 2011

The Pazzi Chapel, Brunelleschi

  • Chapter House for the monastery of Santa Croce, Florence
  • Commissioned by the Pazzi family
  • Rectangular, 3 stories, central dome
  • Built based on geometrical principles
  • Proportions of 3 stories diminish as they rise
  • Only color provided by a few elements against white, stucco walls and dome
  • Rational, ordered clarity of mathematics contrasts Gothic style and indicates values of the period 
    • Mentti - "truths of Christian religion are as clear and self-evident as the axioms of mathematics"
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