[A Wanderer in Florence by E. V. Lucas]@TWC D-Link bookA Wanderer in Florence CHAPTER II 11/20
Commemorative medals which may be seen in the Bargello, were also struck, and the family of Pazzi was banished and its name removed by decree from the city's archives.
Poor Giuliano, who was generally beloved for his charm and youthful spirits, was buried at S.Lorenzo in great state. I have often attended High Mass in this Duomo choir--the theatre of the Pazzi tragedy--but never without thinking of that scene. Luca della Robbia's doors to the new sacristy, which gave the young cardinal his safety, had been finished only eleven years.
Donatello was to have designed them, but his work at Padua was too pressing.
The commission was then given to Michelozzo, Donatello's partner, and to Luca della Robbia, but it seems likely that Luca did nearly all.
The doors are in very high relief, thus differing absolutely from Donatello's at S.Lorenzo, which are in very low.
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