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"Filippo also made a model for the lantern; this had eight sides and was in proportion with the cupola and it was beautifully successful in invention, variety and adornment...Because he was now old and would not see the lantern finished he stipulated in his will that it should be built with the model and the written instructions that he left." I-159 Lantern
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"As to how beautiful the edifice is, it is its own witness. From ground level to the lantern the height is 308 feet, the body of the lantern is 72 feet, the copper ball is eight feet, the cross sixteen feet, and the whole is 404 feet; and it can confidently be asserted that the ancients never built to such a height nor risked challenging the sky itself." I-160 Santa Maria del Fiore
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"While all this work was going on Filippo made several other buildings which we shall now describe in order. For the Pazzi family he made with his own hand the model for the chapter house in Santa Croce at Florence, a work of great beauty and variety." I-160
Pazzi Chapel, Santa Croce, Florence
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Pazzi Chapel (interior)
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Pazzi Chapel (scarcella)
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Pazzi Chapel (entrance)
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Pazzi Chapel (dome)
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Pazzi Chapel (pavement)
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