To thee it is given to carve Christs: to me only peasants." No one should forget this pretty story, either here or at S.Maria Novella, where Brunelleschi's crucifix now is.
The flexible Siena iron grille of this end chapel dates from 1335.

Note its ivy border.
On entering the left aisle we find the tombs of Cherubini, the composer, Raphael Morghen, the engraver, and that curious example of the Florentine universalist, whose figure we saw under the Uffizi, Leon Battista Alberti (1405-1472), architect, painter, author, mathematician, scholar, conversationalist, aristocrat, and friend of princes.

His chief work in Florence is the Rucellai palace and the facade of S.Maria Novella, but he was greater as an influence than creator, and his manuals on architecture, painting, and the study of perspective helped to bring the arts to perfection.

It is at Rimini that he was perhaps most wonderful.

Lorenzo de' Medici greatly valued his society, and he was a leader in the Platonic Academy.