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Dome: Main Structure: - completed after Brunelleschi's - A hemispherical covers death following his plans d o m e a central square, which is m a i n - cylindrical cupola with its delicate extended on either side so that the lantern was added to the top of square forms the centre of a the chapel only in 1461. rectangle - twelve-ribbed hemispherical - The minor spatial compartment, dome on pendentives above a opening off a third side of the main square square, is a corresponding square apse covered by a dome and containing the altar. Apse: a semicircular projecting part of a building, especially the east end of a church that contains the altar. Pendatives: A triangular section of vaulting between the rim of a dome and each adjacent pair of the arches that support it.

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squares isregularly dividedinto supportanentablature that f- slenderCorinthiancolumns a c a d e erior - Portico: o c i t r o p - Theenamel terracottassurrounding the domeare byLucadella Robbia uniformillumination. mergeswiththe light from thedome(thelight from theheaven),creating a - Theporticoservesto "filter"thelightcominginfrom theoutside,which - TheporticowasbuiltafterBrunelleschi's deathcorresponds to hisdesign. Arch: flankedbycolumnsthatsupportan - references theRomanframedarch motif-around arch rational,clearspatialarrangement. - Thecentralround arch oftheporch a r c h - addeddimensionoftherecessed doorofthechapel,setdeeplyintoshadows Cappella deiPazzi niches the PazziChapel frames entablature oneachside. themain -ina interior Cappella deithe Pazzi Chapel Materials:m a t e r i a l s - severely restrained, made of the gray stone called pietra serena and white plaster, unrelieved by color - The harmonious pietra serena grey stone pilasters, oculi, dome ribs and corbels contrast cooly with the white stuccoed walls

Interior: - a low bench runs along the walls of the room; opposite the entrance a smaller altar chapel, square and domed, opens from the eastern wall - wall surfaces are divided into panels based on the module of the square - Corinthian pilasters serve to unite the four walls to the side bays - The floorplan is in the form of a rectangle surmounted by a central cupola Pilaster: a vertical structural part of a building that projects partway from - ratio of length to width is 1:2, the altar a wall and is made to resemble an recess is 1:1 ornamental column by adding a i n t e r i o r base and capital

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