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The Basilica di San Lorenzo ( Basilica of St Lawrence) is one of the largest churches of Florence, Italy, situated at the centre of the city’s main market district. It was consecrated in 393 and is one of the many churches that claims to be the oldest in Florence. For three hundred years it was the city's cathedral before eventually losing the status to Santa Reparata . It was also the parish church of the Medici family. In 1419, Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici offered to finance a new church to replace the Romanesque building. Brunelleschi was commissioned to design it. The Medicis gave large amounts of money, but to this day nobody has financed a façade (although Michelangelo designed one). The campanile dates from 1740.
The Renaissance interior is huge, cool and airy and is lined with chapels. Opening off the north transeptTewkesbury Abbey. The transepts are coloured purple; the crossing is red. Full descriptions of the elements of a Gothic floorplan are found at the entry Cathedral diagram. In Romanesque and Gothic Christian church architecture, the transept is the area se is the domed Sagresta Vecchia (Old SacristyA sacristy is a room for keeping vestments (such as the cassock and chasuble) and other church furnishings, sacred vessels and church treasures. The sacristy is usually located inside the church (for example, near one of the side altars or more usually be), the oldest part of the present church, which contains the tombs of several members of the Medici family. It was the only part of the church completed in Brunelleschi's lifetime. Opposite it in the south transept is the Sagrestia Nuova (New Sacristy), begun in 1520Events January 18 King Christian II of Denmark and Norway defeats the Swedes at Lake Asunde. June Moctezuma II, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan is declared deposed due to his captivity by conquistador Hernan Cortes. His brother Cuitlahuac rises to the throne. by Michelangelo, who also designed the Medici tombs within.
The most celebrated and grandest part of San Lorenzo is the Cappelle Medicee (Medici Chapels) in the apseThis article is about an architectural feature; for the astronomical term see apsis. Tewkesbury Abbey. The apse is coloured gray (ambulatory and radiating chapels) and green (sanctuary). In Romanesque and Gothic Christian abbey, cathedral and church archi. The Medici were still paying for it when the last member of the family, Anna Maria Luisa de' MediciAnna Maria Luisa de' Medici ( 1667- 1743), the wife of Johann Wilhelm II, Elector Palatine ( 1690- 1716), was the last of the Medicis. Her most notable action was willing all the personal property of the Medicis to the Florentine state, provided that noth, died in 1743Events February 14 Henry Pelham becomes British Prime Minister February 21 - The premiere in London of George Frideric Handel's oratorio, Samson''. September 13 Treaty of Worms (1743) a treaty between Great Britain, Austria and Sardinia Battle of Dettinge. Almost fifty lesser members of the family are buried in the cryptA crypt is a large, stone chamber or vault used to store the deceased. Crypts are usually found in cemeteries and in religious buildings such as cathedrals but are also occasionally found on personal estates. Wealthy or prestigious families will often hav, designed by Bernardo Buontalenti . Above is the Cappella dei Principi (Chapel of the Princes), begun in 1604Events January 14 Hampton Court conference with James I of England, the Anglican bishops and representatives of Puritans September 20 Capture of Ostend by Spanish forces under Ambrosio Spinola after a three year siege. November 1 At Whitehall Palace in Lo, a great domed octagonal hall where the grand dukes themselves are buried. At its centre was supposed to be the Holy Sepulchre itself, although attempts to buy and then steal it from Jerusalem failed.