a renaissance gem, The Pazzi Chapel

[@westoncurnow4475]

One of the most beautiful and prayerful structures analyzed by you two to date. Thank you!

[@sherryzimmerman9220]

From Cathedral to Chapel….my breathe was stopped by the contrast of two of the most exquisite places to stop…..ponder and pray…..that I have ever witnessed….your attention to details in how to cast our eyes up and eyes down and around makes for such depth in how to relax and read spaces……

[@virginiaensinck5828]

What a wonderful presentation! Your voices are so soothing. I love listening to you both! 🤗

[@DJL78]

This channel is just spectacular.

[@Paulco67]

I love the production style of these super informative videos. Thank you for your hard work in bringing these gems to us!

[@TheYvesbn]

Amazing analysis, as always

[@elisaruano7704]

Again, a fantastic short presentation that encapsulates the spirit of the chapel so well.

[@jake2963]

Wonderful video. Thank you.

[@miguelferreira9407]

Best way to start the new year with a fresh Smarthistory upload

[@carlberg7503]

Brilliant. In six minutes we learn so much about architecture and the transition from Gothic to Renaissance. But all these details end with an astute philosophical observation. The architecture of the Pazzi Chapel encourages the viewer to look up and see the heavens. We live on earth, but we are not earthbound.

[@domovoi_0]

Love and blessings

[@guest_informant]

Thank you :-)

[@SethTheOrigin]

Superb as always

[@smarthistory-art-history]

Thank you.

[@averyshaw2142]

The roundels are my favorite part

[@barrymoore4470]

Serenely beautiful interior space, a kind of ideal encapsulation of Quattrocento Florentine taste.

[@Sasha0927]

Another gorgeously edited update video - the wandering arrow at the beginning was funny. Santa Croce is stunning. It's almost too stunning, lol. I feel my comment on the original video is validated because, yes, this space is decidedly more plain and could be disappointing depending on your perspective / intention.

[@huahindan]

Thankyou

[@georgemohr7532]

A truly spectacular site. I love this channel. Highlighting the things you are speaking about is a great addition. I adds understanding and clarification. Great work describing a great work.

[@smarthistory-art-history]

Many thanks for your generous note.

[@idfclutchnixon]

it is hilarious in a good way how my professor of History of Architecture also called this building a gem, and she would also add that she'd never use this word in her vocabulary! A true gem indeed by Brunelleschi!

[@bornonthecob2522]

very helpful video! thanks!

[@jameskirk7762]

Hi. The same effect , just on a greater scale , as in the Hagia Sofia . Good Video, as always . Greetings from Germany

[@andreaoliverio6524]

grazie from florence!!!

[@yudhibarchi9056]

Sweet prayer

[@Jason-o5s]

Cheer~~~a small building for Christian worship, typically one attached to an institution or private house.😊

[@men_del12]

Is it possible that there could some issue from the commisioners about the building style to be non decorated? Or perhaps some monks may advise Bruneschli to "make plain"? (Like either they prefer to be some mystic taking place there to fill in the blank or because the buildings focus more on geometric shapes than paintings arts?). I'm just curios about this.

[@smarthistory-art-history]

The Cistercians did that. Their (earlier) monastic architecture is plain and largely unadorned. Judging by the opulence of the rest of the church however, this was not the gameplan of the Florentine Franciscans.

[@celinefong3311]

I have my art history exam tomorrow💔

[@trulsdirio]

I will always be a Gothic type of guy, the simplified, more filled in and flattened shapes of the renaissance never really spoke to me. Still neat to learn more about it tho!

[@bradpolak6793]

It looks neo classical

[@smarthistory-art-history]

It is indeed a revival of the classical as we state in the video, but centuries before the style we call neoclassical. So instead of writing "It looks neo classical" it would be more accurate to write, The neoclassical looks like the Pazzi Chapel!"

[@samueljaramillo4221]

We’ve been there. Will be there is February again.

[@thomascollins3799]

Brunelleschi was almost certainly not the architect and consensus in the last 20 years has supported this conclusion. Still, by any measure, a masterpiece of architecture by any name,

[@smarthistory-art-history]

While Trachtenberg and others have indeed made persuasive arguments against Brunelleschi, it seems an overstatement to suggest that consensus has been reached.

[@lecutter9382]

@@smarthistory-art-history Didn't Vasari attribute it to Brunelleschi though? I know everything in Lives isn't gospel but it would be difficult to dispute if he did. Why would he if it wasn't Brunelleschi - whom Vasari adored.

[@genadearagon8977]

It left me cold-figuratively, not literally. The colors, the intense classicism, not only didn’t move me, they repelled me. Geometry and mathematics may appeal to some, but not me. So deduct 1 from “universally loved.”

[@smarthistory-art-history]

Thanks for commenting. I have suspicion that had we lived in the early 15th century in Florence, and had known mostly romanesque and gothic structures, this revival of antiquity might have hit us quite differently. We have grown up in the aftermath of modernism and its cool classicism. This may understandably shade our responses. It is a bit of a thought experiment to imagine what the Pazzi Chapel would have felt like 500 hundred years ago. You might have felt the same, but its also possible, it may have had a very different impact.

[@0architect-]

​@@smarthistory-art-history this is why a building should always be analyzed with the context of its time

[@fulippuannaghiti1965]

Thanks a lot for uploading! I would be really grateful if you could cover the norman Byzantine cathedrals in Sicily?

[@smarthistory-art-history]

We do! Have a look here smarthistory.org/norman-sicily/ and here smarthistory.org/cappella-palatina/

[@fulippuannaghiti1965]

@@smarthistory-art-history Thanks for forwarding the link! It would be great if you could make a coverage on KZbin too:)

[@smarthistory-art-history]

We hope to get there someday...