Pellegrini Chapel - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Pellegrini Chapel - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Pellegrini Chapel (Italian: Cappella Pellegrini), initially named "Guaresco,""This chapel was for a long time called Guaresco from the noble name of the Raimondi family, and it was kept until the College of Notaries in Verona (so willed by the testatrix) sustained its patronage." In Ronzani, p. 13. is a religious building commissioned by Countess Margherita Pellegrini to the famous architect Michele Sanmicheli and built between 1528 and 1559. It occupies a prominent place in Renaissance architecture.On this subject Giorgio Vasari, in the 1568 edition of his The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, writes: "Michele was excellent not only in fortifications, but also in private buildings, in temples, churches and monasteries, as can be seen in Verona and elsewhere in many buildings, particularly in the very beautiful and ornate Guareschi chapel in San Bernardino, made round for the use of a temple and of Corinthian order, with all those ornaments of which that style is capable. [... ] For being therefore from within the said chapel of this beautiful stone and worked by excellent masters of carving and very well commissioned, it is held that for a similar work there is no other more beautiful in Italy today, Michele having made the whole work round in such a manner, that the three altars that are in it with their frontispieces and cornices, and similarly the doorway, all turn in a perfect round, almost in the likeness of the exits that Filippo Brunelleschi made in the chapels of the temple of the Angels in Florence, which is a very difficult thing to do." Read more on Wikipedia
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