Chapel of Holy Sepulchre (Rucellai Chapel)

The Marino Marini museum houses the Little Temple of the Holy Sepulchre, an interesting and unknown architectural work, placed in an outbuilding of the Convent of St. Pancrazio, later dismembered and also including the Museum: the Rucellai Chapel.

The project, commissioned by the powerful Rucellai family is attributed to the great renaissance Architect Leon Battista Alberti(1467).

Made of white marble with black inlays, the little temple is considered a copy of the tomb of Christ in Jerusalem, born from the pilgrims’ memory and devotion in the Holy Land.
The little temple is entirely decorated with 30 completely different marble inlays, inserted in boxes depicting naturalistic themes and other highly symbolic themes.