THE MEDICI CHAPEL: a joy to see again Michelangelo’s early piece of architecture, la Sagrestia Nuova, featuring his tombs of Lorenzo di Piero and Giuliano di Lorenzo . They are stunning (even if the female figures look like more like young men with strangely-positioned grapefruits placed on their torsos). In a statement in Michelangelo's biography published in 1553 by his disciple, Ascanio Condivi, and largely based on Michelangelo own recollections, Condivi gives the following description: "The statues are four in number, placed in a sacristy . . . the sarcophagi are placed before the side walls, and on the lids of each there recline two big figures, larger than life, to wit, a man and a woman; they signify Day and Night and, in conjunction, Time which devours all things… And in order to signify Time he planned to make a mouse, having left a bit of marble upon the work (which [plan] he subsequently did not carry out because he was prevented by circumstances), because this little animal ceaselessly gnaws and consumes just as time devours everything”. #michelangelo #medicichapel #florence #sculpture #interior (at Medici Chapel) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEvycMnlzZ1/?igshid=1idnbh0pbptci
