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The final resting place of the Medici dynasty, with tales of conspiracy and revenge.
A private tour of the Medici Chapels, the Medici dynasty's final resting place, featuring semi-precious stone work and Michelangelo sculpture.
Hear tales of conspiracy, revenge, and mysterious deaths from your private guide as you explore the New Sacristy and the rest of the Medici Chapels, with headsets included to cut background noise.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Meet directly at the Medici Chapels.
See Michelangelo's sculptural work inside the chapel complex.
Spectacular pietra dura decoration throughout the chapels.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private tour of the Medici Chapels, the Medici dynasty's final resting place, featuring semi-precious stone work and Michelangelo sculpture. Hear tales of conspiracy, revenge, and mysterious deaths from your private guide as you explore the New Sacristy and the rest of the Medici Chapels, with headsets included to cut background noise.
The New Sacristy, the chapel Michelangelo designed and partly carved himself, was commissioned by Pope Leo X through his cousin Cardinal Giulio de' Medici (later Pope Clement VII) as a burial chapel for recently deceased Medici dukes. Michelangelo worked on it between roughly 1520 and 1533, sculpting the reclining allegorical figures representing Day, Night, Dawn, and Dusk that recline above the tombs, figures whose twisting poses would go on to influence sculpture for generations afterward.
The Chapel of the Princes, the larger domed space most visitors see first, is a very different kind of statement. Construction began in 1604 under Grand Duke Ferdinando I de' Medici, who wanted an octagonal room lined entirely in inlaid semi-precious and precious stone, a Florentine craft technique called pietre dure, to house the sarcophagi of the ruling grand dukes. The sheer scale of stonework inside, deep reds, greens, and golds fitted together like a mosaic across every wall, is part of what makes the chapels feel so different in tone from the simpler New Sacristy next door.
Between the two spaces, you're really looking at two different eras of the same family's ambitions: an intimate, artistically radical Renaissance chapel designed by one of the era's greatest sculptors, and a century later, a grander Baroque monument built to project the dynasty's wealth and permanence.
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