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Tomb of Lorenzo de'Medici (Duke of Urbino), close side view, looking up from the right side

Title:

San Lorenzo; New Sacristy

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Related Work:

part of San Lorenzo

Creators:

Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian architect, 1475-1564)

Date:

1519-1534 (creation)

Style/Period:

Mannerist (Renaissance-Baroque style)

Location:

site: San Lorenzo (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)

Culture:

Italian

Materials:

stone; pietra serena; marble

Work Types:

building divisions; rooms and spaces; religious building spaces; chapels (rooms or structures); sepulchral chapels; visual works; casts (sculpture)

Description:

When the façade project for S Lorenzo was abruptly dropped in 1519, Michelangelo was ordered to build a Medici funerary chapel at S Lorenzo (the New Sacristy). In terms of sculpture, this period of Michelangelo's life was dominated by the work for the New Sacristy. The ensemble is lamentably incomplete, and many details planned for it remain unknown, but the Medici tombs give a better sense of the plenitude of Michelangelo's inventive powers than the scattered fragments of successive schemes for the Julius monument. It includes two wall tombs for recently deceased members of the family, Giuliano de' Medici, Duc de Nemours, and Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino. The two later became known as the Capitani because of the Roman military uniforms worn by their effigies. The marble frameworks and the four allegorical figures of the Times of Day for these tombs occupy the lateral walls of the chamber. All the autograph carvings for the New Sacristy were executed between 1524 and 1534. [Other sculptures in the chapel were completed by other hands.] (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/)

Classification:

Architecture and City Planning

Technique:

construction (assembling)

Image Rights:

Vendor ID:

1A1-MB-SN-C2

MDID Identifier:

3588

Archivision Set:

Archivision Base Collection

Collection:

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Collection:

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Record created:

June 7, 2018

Last modified:

Nov. 1, 2018

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