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The Grand Ducal Burial Vault (Russian: Великокняжеская усыпальница) is the purpose-built mausoleum of the Grand Dukes and Duchesses of Russia in the Peter and Paul Fortress. The Neo-Baroque domed structure is frequently mistaken for a part of the Peter and Paul Cathedral due to architectural similarities.
Características. Tipo. Mausoleo. [ editar datos en Wikidata] El Mausoleo Gran Ducal de San Petersburgo o la Cripta Gran Ducal 1 (en ruso: Великокняжеская усыпальница ) es el mausoleo construido especialmente de los grandes duques y duquesas de Rusia en la Fortaleza Pedro y Pablo.
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The Sagrestia Nuova was intended by Cardinal Giulio de' Medici and his cousin Pope Leo X as a mausoleum or mortuary chapel for members of the Medici family. It balances Brunelleschi's Sagrestia Vecchia, the "Old Sacristy" nestled between the left transept of San Lorenzo, with which it consciously competes, and shares its format of a cubical space s...
The octagonal Cappella dei Principi surmounted by a tall dome, 59 m. high, is the distinguishing feature of San Lorenzo when seen from a distance. It is on the same axis as the nave and chancel to which it provides the equivalent of an apsidal chapel. Its entrance is from the exterior, in Piazza Madonna degli Aldobrandini, and through the low vault...
Edith Balas, "Michelangelo's Medici Chapel: A New Interpretation", Philadelphia, 1995Barenboim, Peter (with Heath, Arthur). 500 years of the New Sacristy: Michelangelo in the Medici Chapel, LOOM, Moscow, 2019. ISBN 978-5-906072-42-9Peter Barenboim, "Michelangelo Drawings: Key to the Medici Chapel Interpretation", Moscow, Letny Sad, 2006, ISBN 5-98856-016-4Peter Barenboim, Alexander Zakharov, "Mouse of Medici and Michelangelo: Medici Chapel / Il topo dei Medici e Michelangelo: Cappelle Medicee", Mosca, Letni Sad, 2006. ISBN 5-98856-012-1Media related to Medici Chapel (Basilica of San Lorenzo)at Wikimedia Commons 1. Official website Coordinates: 43°46′31″N 11°15′13″E / 43.7751444444°N 11.2535722222°E / 43.7751444444; 11.2535722222
The Grand Ducal Burial Vault is the purpose-built mausoleum of the Grand Dukes and Duchesses of Russia in the Peter and Paul Fortress. The Neo-Baroque domed structure is frequently mistaken for a part of the Peter and Paul Cathedral due to architectural similarities.
Grand-Ducal Burial Vault. Standing next to the Ss. Peter and Paul Cathedral, the Grand-Ducal Burial Vault is the final resting place for 13 junior members of the Romanov family, as well as for Grand-Duke Vladimir Kirillovich, who was head of the Russian Imperial Family in exile until he died in 1992.
The Grand Ducal Mausoleum, next to the cathedral, was built in 1896 to hold the tombs of the lesser Romanovs, as well as the Beauharnais family (Dukes of Leuchtenberg), who had married into the Romanov family. Grand Ducal Mausoleum at the Peter and Paul Fortress.
On the upper floor stands the Cappella dei Principi, the mausoleum of the Medici Grand Dukes, dazzling with multi-coloured marbles and hardstones, crafted by the highly-specialized grand-ducal workshop; started in the Baroque period, the chapel was completed with the frescoed dome by Pietro Benvenuti (1828-37) under the Habsburg-Lorraine family ...
