look at those gypsys hitting eachother!

We went to Church San Lorenzo with our art history class last week, so here's some photos of things! This is the outside of the back of the apse which is pretty but the front is really plain because Michelangelo was supposed to do the facade but the project got cancelled because a prominent Medici died and they put him to work on a funerary chapel inside instead of the facade, which they were also the patrons for of course.



a cool baroque reliquary inside the church.



We went straight to the Medici chapel to talk about it first, and it's unfortunate that it's pretty unfinished because the tombs Michelangelo did make are pretty awesome. These side tombs of Giuliano and Lorenzo the younger(s) feature the times of day (Night, Day, Dawn and Dusk) as ametaphor for how time took these two men in their prime. PRETTY GREAT MIKE. A PRETTY
NOVEL IDEA.

This tomb was for Giuliano and Lorenzo the Magnificent who were buried in this chapel long before Michelangelo started work on it and their tomb is obvs super mega unfinished.


We moved onto a later chapel called the Chapel of the Princes, whch sadly had scaffolding around it, but you can see how crazy awesome baroqueness it is anyway.




here's a scale shot. Those tombs are like cars, and they were set at least a foot above me.


Then we went into the Laurentian library, here's Ricardo waiting to go inside.


But all my pictures of it are really crappy. Suffice it to say it has one of the best collections of old rare manuscripts in the world, none of which you can see, but the library is small and pretty.

This is the inside of San Lorenzo itself, done in a typical Brunelleschi Florentine style with the pietra serena and white washed walls.


Brunelleschi did the sacristy too and sometimes Michelangelo's chapel is called the new sacristy because the design is based off of Brunelleschi's plan but it was never a sacristy. Anyway here's the old sacristy.




The view from the old sacristy into the transcept. All these photos were taken despite the fact that photos are prohibited, so you have to be sneaky and take pictures around corners like turning the corner with a gun in a videogame!


Lastly I'll leave you with Helen in front of a giant fresco by Bronzino.