Dome, Medici Chapel, San Lorenzo

Dome, Medici Chapel, Basilica of San Lorenzo

As part of my Michelangelo pilgrimage (the secondary pilgrimage, with the Caravaggio quest being the first one), I wanted to see the Medici chapel with the famous tomb sculptures by Michelangelo. Photos of those sculptures are forthcoming, but first I wanted to lead off with this architectural view of the ceiling.

Dome, Medici Chapel, San Lorenzo
Dome, Medici Chapel, San Lorenzo

I wasn’t even thinking about it when composing the shot, but in looking at it afterward, there are all these repetitions of threes in the scene – three windows in the lantern, three circles, the lantern and the windows together forming not only a trio of light sources but a visual triangle, and so on.

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