The Magi Chapel frescoes by Benozzo Gozzoli, Eastern Wall, the procession of the Magi.
The Magi Chapel frescoes by Benozzo Gozzoli, Eastern Wall, the procession of the 1442, Pope Martin V had granted the Medici permission to build a private chapel. This chapel, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, was created by Michelozzo di Bartolomeo between 1449 and 1450 and finally completed in the spring of 1459, on the first floor of the private residence that the Medici family had built at around that time in Via Larga (now Via Cavour). The chapel consists of a main, square room that leads, via a step, into a smaller, similar-shaped room, the scarsella (rectangular chancel), containing an altar and two minute vestries at the sides. The two rooms are separated by two pilasters topped with capitals of the Corinthian order. This space was originally occupied by a vestibule that ran along the wall of the entrance, directly opposite the altar, but the architecture underwent extensive alterations during the rebuilding work carried out in the seventeenth century by the Riccardi family who had taken possession of the building
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Location: Medici Riccardi Palace Via Cavour 1, Florence Europe,
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