The Pazzi Chapel in Santa Croce church in Florence is considered one of the cornerstones of Renaissance
architecture, and to most scholars, it marks one of the highlights of the career of the great architect Filippo
Brunelleschi.
Though funds for the chapel were assembled in 1429 by Andrea Pazzi, head of the Pazzi family, whose wealth was second only to the Medici, construction did not begin until about 1442. The chapel was completed in 1443, after Brunelleschi's death. The building is considered to be an Early Renaissance masterpiece.
It was AbyWarburg who first asked if the arrangement of the constellations was astronomically accurate and if it represented a particular date. Relying on the computations of a Hamburg astronomer, he concluded in an article in 1911 that the fresco must comemmorrate the consecration of the high altar of San Lorenzo on 9 July 1422, the date cited in an 18th century pilgrims guide.?(From https://www.jstor.org/stable/751062?seq=1)
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