Still drawing this one…Ancora un attimo, la stiamo disegnando…Einen Moment, wir zeichnen sie noch…
Tempietto del Santo Sepolcro di L. B. Alberti
- When to go
- Check opening hours before you go
Getting there
- Getting there
- PANZANI UNITÀ · bus 11, 14, 18, 6, C2, C4 · 350 mPIAZZA SAURO · bus 11, 18, C1, C3, C4 · 480 mFRESCOBALDI · bus 11, 18, C1, C3, C4 · 490 m
About
The Rucellai Sepulchre is a small funerary chapel built inside the Rucellai Chapel of the church of San Pancrazio, Florence. It was commissioned by Giovanni di Paolo Rucellai and built to designs by Leon Battista Alberti in imitation or emulation of the Holy Sepulchre in the Anastasis in Jerusalem. It contains the tombs of Giovanni Rucellai and members of his family. meaning approximately "Giovanni di Paolo Rucellai, in order that his salvation might be prayed for from where, through Christ, the resurrection of all was achieved, had this temple built in the shape of the tomb in Jerusalem 1467".
- Built
- 1457
- Denomination
- catholic
- Style
- Renaissance architecture