The Pazzi Chapel stands in the first cloister on the south flank of the Basilica di Santa Croce in Florence. The infobox lists Filippo Brunelleschi, but the text says he is now thought to have designed the plan, not the execution, and names Giuliano da Maiano or Michelozzo as possible others. The Pazzi family built it, and Andrea Pazzi assembled the funds.
The infobox gives groundbreaking in 1429 and completion in 1461, while the text says funds were assembled in 1429, construction began about 1442 and it was completed in 1478. It is an Early Renaissance masterpiece with pietra serena sandstone detailing on load-bearing masonry walls. The article gives no dimensions.
It was planned as a chapter house and classroom, with a burial chapel. Luca della Robbia made the tondi of seated Apostles. The dome painting shows the constellations closest to July 6, 1439. The first written attribution to Brunelleschi dates to the 1490s.
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