Sommige van de complexen in Florence zijn heel groot,
heel onvoorspelbaar van samenstelling en de inhoud
kan je nog veel meer verrassen.
De Basiliek van San Lorenzo is onderdeel van het
Mediceo Laurenziano Complex. De Medicikapellen zijn er
ook een onderdeel van.
In de crypte van het complex is een natuurhistorische
tentoonstelling maar ik kom er ook andere dingen tegen:
Florence, Basilica of San Lorenzo, Verrocchio is de ontwerper van de Tomb of Cosimo the Elder, 1467.
Bij het grafmonument/pilaar stond de volgende omschrijving:
When Cosimo the Elder died in 1464 the City Counsil, or Signoria, paid him the compliment of ordering a solemn funeral. The place chosen by the Medici for his burial was naturally the Basilica of San Lorenzo and Verrocchio was commissioned to produce his funeral monument in March 1465. The artist designed a large Renaissance sarcophagus built into the pillar, in the crypt, that supports the floor of the chancel. Cosimo’s body was placed in the sarcophagus on 22 October 1467. Verrocchio also designed the geometrical polychrome marble inlay work which serves as Cosimo’s tombstone in the floor before the high altar in the basilica and which is situated exactly above his tomb in the crypt below. His funeral monument can be glimpsed through four grates (roosters) set around the edges of the marble inlay work.
The Latin inscription regularly removed and replaced to reflect the Medici family’s alternating political fortunes, reads: Here lies Cosimo de Medici Father of the nation by public decree.
Het volgende graf is van Donatello:
Basilica of San Lorenzo, Tomb of Donatello.
Manifattura Moscovita (?), Icona con l ‘ascensione di Cristo, inizio sec XIX (begin 19e eeuw).
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