San Lorenzo. Brunelleschi

  

Arquitectonic card:

Title/name: Church of San Lorenzo.
Author: Filippo Brunelleschi.                 
Year: 1422-1470.
Style: Renassaince. 
Technique: Stone and marble.
Location: Florence, Italy.

General description: Italian basilica of catholic cult.
                                
                
This is the church of San Lorenzo, that was contructed by Filippo Brunelleschi. Filippo Brunelleschi was an architect and italian sculptor. It was the most important sculptor in the 15th century, with Alberti, Donatello and Mosaccio. He is one of the developers of Renassaince style. All their mathemathical knowledge and his enthusiasm for this science that help to Filippo to takeit for the discovery of the perspective, the key of the Renassaince art.

The Renassaince style is a cultural movement that was produced in Western Europe during the 15th and 16th century. The city of Florence, in Italy was the place when this movement born and was development and then was extended of the rest of Europe.

In 1422-1470 was the period that during the construction of this church. The construction can be considerate that start in 1418,because before to built this church, some buildings was demolished.

This basilica was ordered to build by Cosme de Médici. Cosimo di Giovanni de' Medici being a politician and a banker, founding of the dynasty of Médici.

This constuction was a church or a basilica, the materials used are the stone, thec marble and other materials for the facing.This church present a basilical plan that have columns and arches. The arches that formed this building are middle point arch.

The nave is a latin cross plan, has ten chapels vaulted four points , which open to area cruise and the transpet.

The side chapels have the same proportion as the arches of the naves and are covered by a barrel vault.

The dome was decorated with Zodiac signs. Brunelleschi designed the sacristy as a surmounted by a hemispherical dome, where the dome is shown as a ray of sunshine were each of the twelve rays represent the twelve apostles cube, this is a way to represent the universe.

Thw walls of the nave have small windows and side oculi , small around windows that give natural light to inside.

For this basilica Brunelleschi created a latin croos plan, with very little cruise,it produced a visual effect of the centralization in the area of the transpet to enter that area in the light of the latern dome.

This is a catholic cult church that are use for the regular worship.

The previus influences was the demolition of some buildings, the following influences was the place of the Médici family grave.

Finally, in conclusion one piece of art are easy to analyse when you folow the phases that you have, these constuction was easy to analyse because you can search some information and make a principal idea about this build and tell the inmportant information about this basilica and learn about the construction of this period an the style.