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6 Piazza di Madonna degli Aldobrandini
Firenze, Toscana
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Piazza San Lorenzo is an important place in the history of Florence: it is the headquarters of the Medici family who had here their house, church, cemetery and library! SAN LORENZO BASILICA: the only unfinished basilica, the oldest in Florence. It has been renovated several times since the sixteenth century by the Medici family. MEDICEAN CHAPELS: access is gained from the back of the basilica and it contains the private cemetery of the Medici family. Here, among others, you can find the Chapel of the Princes by Buontalenti and the New Sacristy done by Michelangelo. In the first one, particularly beautiful for the precious marbles and inlays that decorate the walls (on which you see the coats of arms of the Tuscan cities loyal to the family), is buried Cosimo I together with various relatives. The second one is commissioned to Michelangelo to host the tombs of Giuliano and Lorenzo De Medici. Here the artist, before leaving definitively Florence to move to Rome, completed some of his most beautiful sculptures: "The allegories of time", the portraits of the "Dukes", the "Madonna and Child" and the statues of Saints Cosma and Damian.
Piazza San Lorenzo is an important place in the history of Florence: it is the headquarters of the Medici family who had here their house, church, cemetery and library! SAN LORENZO BASILICA: the only unfinished basilica, the oldest in Florence. It has been renovated several times since the sixteent…
The final resting place of the Medici family The Medici Chapels form part of the monumental complex of San Lorenzo. The church of San Lorenzo was the official church of the Medici from their period as private residents in their palace in Via Larga (now via Cavour), becoming their mausoleum which houses most of the family. The project for a family tomb was conceived in 1520 when Michelangelo began work on the New Sacristy, corresponding to the Old Sacristy by Brunelleschi on the other side of the church. It was above all Cardinal Giulio de' Medici, future Pope Clement VII, who wished to erect a mausoleum for certain members of his family, his uncle Lorenzo the Magnificent, Lorenzo's grandson Lorenzo, Duke of Urbino (1492-1519) and Lorenzo's youngest son, Giuliano, Duke of Nemours (1479-1516).
The final resting place of the Medici family The Medici Chapels form part of the monumental complex of San Lorenzo. The church of San Lorenzo was the official church of the Medici from their period as private residents in their palace in Via Larga (now via Cavour), becoming their mausoleum which hou…
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