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  • A few years after the Sassetti Chapel, Girlandaio decorated the Tornabuoni Chapel in the apse of Santa Maria Novella.  The subject is the life of John the Baptist, 1485-1490,  seen from the northern side of the nave.  Altar with wooden crucifix, decorated with pots of red poinsettias and candelabra as it is still the Christmas season.
    Florence-Santa-Maria-Novella_Tornabu...jpg
  • Brunilleschi's next major work after the Ospedale degli Innocenti was the Pazzi Chapel, next to the Santa Croce basilica, from 1441-1460.  The Pazzi family, rich Florentine bankers, conspired against the Medici brothers Lorenzo and Giuliani. In 1478 they succeeded in murdering Giuliano during mass in the cathedral.  Lorenzo escaped and became subsequently "Lorenzo the Magnificent."  The Pazzi chapel, however, is a gem of serene beauty.  This exterior shot is the usual one shown in books.  A few tourists come and go on the approach path.
    Pazzi-chapel-exterior-approach-ITA20...jpg
  • The same year, 1424, Masaccio and Masolino were painting the Brancacci Chapel in the Church of the Carmine.  As always I look for the details that show some personality.  Slightly thuggish looking Masaccio self portrait.  He died at the age of 27, rumored to have been poisoned by some competing painter.  Masolino the shorter man at left, and the jug-eared man Bruneslleschi.  The man in the foreground possibly Leon Battista Alberti.  They are in the audience of St. Peter enthroned.
    Brancacci-chapel-Masaccio-portrait-I...jpg
  • Interior of the Pazzi Chapel showing one corner with arched windows and terra cotta roundels by Luca della Robbia above them.   The grey edgings and  pilasters are of pietra serena, a specific type of stone from Fiesole.  Combined with the warm white walls they make an exquisitely serene space.  Some scholars now think that Berunelleschi was responsible for the design, and the building work was completed by others, such as Michelozzo.
    Pazzi-chapel-interior-ITA201012-114.jpg
  • Chapel of Henry VII, Westminster Abbey, showing the fan vault ceiling, line of banners, and a window as reflected in a mirror table placed for the purpose.
    Henry VII CHapel Westminster ENG2011...jpg
  • SS Quattro Coronati, chapel of St Sylvester, frescoes depicting  the legend of Emperor Constantine's cure from leprosy by Pope St. Sylvester and other miraculous events during the early pontiff's reign. They were completed and consecrated in 1246. Interior view of the chapel, showing floor inlaid Cosmati work, altar, and part of the wall paintings.
    Quattro-Coronati-Sylvester-Rome_ITA2...jpg
  • Rome, Santa Prassede, chapel of Saint Zeno, dome, pendentives, mosaics.  8th century. Detail of one pendentive with figure of an angel wearing a white robe, standing on a globe,  hands upraised as though holding up the central dome with its figure of Christ Pantocrator.
    Santa-Prassede-mosaic-Rome_ITA200901...jpg
  • I collect domes.  This looks straight upward at the central dome of the Pazzi Chapel with its pendentives and adjoining arches.  Medallions in the pendentives are the four Evangelists.
    Dome_interior_ITA201012-112.jpg
  • SS Quattro Coronati, chapel of St Sylvester, frescoes depicting  the legend of Emperor Constantine's cure from leprosy by Pope St. Sylvester and other miraculous events during the early pontiff's reign. They were completed and consecrated in 1246.
    Quattro-Coronati-Sylvester-Rome_ITA2...jpg
  • Trogir: sculptures in Chapel of Blessed John from Trogir, in the Cathedral of St. Lawrence, by Niccolo of Florence (pupil of Donatello), begun 1468.
    Trogir-sculpture-putto--HRV200606-09...jpg
  • Brancacci Chapel: ...Detail of 'St. Peter Enthroned', showing a group of five men in the audience on the left of the fresco.  One pair are conversing, paying no attention to the event playing before them.
    Renaissance-men-group-portrait-ITA20...jpg
  • Brancacci Chapel: St. Peter healing the crippled man.  The two foppish men on the right are by Masolino.  They are very commonly replicated.
    Scene-StPeter-beggar-Brancacci-ITA20...jpg
  • Archaeologist Dr. Roger Martlew setting up a survey at Chapel House Wood, Upper Wharfedale, Yorkshire.  Three quarter view in profile with instrument, moor visible beyond.  Slight lens flare visible over the subject's ear.
    Archaeological_work_AR200607_06.jpg
  • Closeup of two hands, belonging to two different people, each gloved and holding a trowel, scraping away in rocky dirt in search of late Roman evidence in Yorkshire's Chapel House Wood.
    Archaeological_work_AR200607_03.jpg
  • Woman in red shirt and cap concentrates on digging through a rock pile in an excavation site at Chapel House Wood, Wharfedale, Yorkshire.  Moor visible beyond the excavation site.
    Archaeological_work_AR200607_07.jpg
  • Earthwatch volunteer Robert Sherwin, seated with a drawing board on his knee, makes a careful measured drawing of the archaeological site at Chapel House Wood.
    Archaeological_work_AR200607_04.jpg
  • The fresco in the smaller dome at left, over the altar, represents the sky in Florence on July 4, 1442 according to astronomers.  Together the dome interiors, medallions, and arches, form a complex of circular and angular shapes.  Attending to what is going on in the ceiling, it is not clear where the eye must rest.
    Pazzi_chapel_ceiling_SI197905-23.jpg
  • Closeup from behind of a woman kneeling on a rock pile to dig for archaeological finds.  Trowel in her gloved left hand, bucket visible on her right, boot soles below, and her nice wide bottom take up most of the image.
    Archaeological_work_AR200607_10.jpg
  • Redheaded Earthwatch volunteer Clay Russell trots a wheelbarrow full of stones up a hill.  He wears sunglasses and gloves but his red hair shouts in the sun.
    Archaeological_work_AR200607_05.jpg
  • Young woman, an Earthwatch volunteer, makes a measured drawing through a grid laid on a corner of an excavation site.  Yorkshire moor and forest visible beyond.
    Archaeological_work_AR200607_08.jpg
  • Angkor, Banteay Srei: cluster of sanctuaries in the center of the complex. Tiny chapels are sited close together, giving a somewhat claustrophobic feeling to some visitors.
    Angkor_temple_Banteay_Srei_interior_...jpg
  • By the last quarter of the 15th century, Domenico Ghirlandaio was the star of fresco.  This is Sassetti chapel in Santa Trinita with frescoes of the Life of St. Francis, 1483-86
    Ghirlandaio-Sassetti-chapel-ITA20101...jpg
  • Interior of St. Vitus Cathedral, Prague, at the chapel where the simple marble tomb of St. Wenceslaus rests.  Side view of the tomb on its plinth; window above with 16th century frescoes of the life of King Wenceslaus.   The chapel itself is 14th century, rebuilt from the original 10th century rotunda church, after Wenceslaus had become the patron saint of Bohemia.
    Wenceslaus-tomb-St.Vitus-Prague-CZR2...jpg
  • Sassetti chapel in Santa Trinita with frescoes by Domenico Ghirlandaio of the Life of St. Francis, 1483-86.  Four or five well dressed ladies in the foreground, male escorts behind.
    Four-Renaissance-ladies-fresco-ITA20...jpg
  • Sassetti chapel in Santa Trinita with frescoes by Domenico Ghirlandaio of the Life of St. Francis, 1483-86.  Group of well dressed men seem to be talking; two kneeling friars in their robes..  Self-portrait at the far right, looks out towards us.
    Group-Renaissance-men-fresco-ITA2010...jpg
  • View through wrought iron gate into a chapel with Annunciation altarpiece, in Santa Maria sopra Minerva. Rome.  I am not a Catholic and the metal barrier represents my incomprehension of that belief system.
    Catholic altar ITA200901--0408.jpg
  • Portrait of Rev. Dr. Kate R. Walker in a favorite stole that echoes the multicolored rose window in the chapel behind her.
    USA.VA201305--2047crop.jpg
  • Portrait of Rev. Dr. Kate R. Walker in a favorite stole that echoes the multicolored rose window in the chapel behind her.
    USA.VA201305--2057.jpg
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