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Interior looking toward the high altar. The Basilica di San Lorenzo (Basilica of St. Lawrence) is one of the largest churches of Florence, Italy, situated at the centre of the main market district of the city, and it is the burial place of all the principal members of the Medici family from Cosimo il Vecchio to Cosimo III.
Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence, Italy: Geographic coordinates ... The Sagrestia Nuova, also known as the New Sacristy and the Medici Chapel, ...
Medici Chapel most often refers to the Sagrestia Nuova or New Sacristy in San Lorenzo, Florence, a burial chapel with sculpture and architecture by Michelangelo. It may also refer to: Medici Chapels , a complex of two chapels at San Lorenzo (the Sagrestia Nuova and the Cappella dei Principi) operated as a museum
The Sagrestia Nuova; on the left is the tomb of Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino; on the right, the altar. The Sagrestia Nuova [1] or New Sacristy, also known simply as the Medici Chapel, was intended by Cardinal Giulio de' Medici and his cousin Pope Leo X as a mausoleum or mortuary chapel for members of the Medici family.
Gabriele Morolli, The Medici square and the buried column, in San Lorenzo 393–1993. Architecture, the history of the factory, catalog of the exhibition (Florence, Basilica of San Lorenzo, 25 September-12 December 1993) edited by Gabriele Morolli and Pietro Ruschi, Florence, Alinea Editrice, 1993, pp. 197–198.
Cappella dei Principi ("Chapel of the Princes" in English) is the mausoleum of the Grand Dukes of Tuscany and their families and is part of the museum complex of the Medici Chapels of Florence, adjacent to the Basilica di San Lorenzo.