The Early Christian Revival at S. Miniato al Monte: The Cardinal of Portugal Chapel
Linda A. Koch
The Cardinal of Portugal Chapel in S. Miniato al Monte at Florence has been thought to be based solely on Brunelleschi's architecture, a view which left its lavish interior ornament little understood anomaly. This essay demonstrates that richly decorated cruciform martyria and mausolea the Early Christian period were sources for conception chapel. Its formal symbolic assimilation with church is elucidated, influence reassessed. cardinal's chapel emerges as monument key importance revival fifteenth-century Florentine art.
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