Pazzi Chapel Roof

Facade of the pazzi chapel.

Pazzi chapel roof. Outline of the chapel from piazza santa croce. Filippo brunelleschi built the pazzi chapel as a perfect space with harmonious proportions. He could achieve this result by including in his project plan the knowledge gained during his stay in rome when he focused primarily on measuring ancient buildings for instance the pantheon. Commonly credited to filippo brunelleschi it is considered to be one of the masterpieces of renaissance architecture.

Pazzi chapel santa croce florence commissioned 1429 built 1442 c 1465 architect. Detail of the doric columns. 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 fits into a timeline of renaissance architectural history like a piece of a puzzle that cannot be removed.

The graceful roof. 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. 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.