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‘Soon after the commencement of the Pazzi Chapel, Brunelleschi began a central-plan church, that of Sta. Maria degli Angeli (begun 1434[ce]) at Florence, which was never completed. It was very important because it was the first central-plan church of the Renaissance, the type of plan which dominates Renaissance thinking. The plan is an octagon on the interior * and 16 sided on the exterior, with a domical vault probably intended to cover the centre.’

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*cf [[Redbook9:134-137][19910420:0953j]{[Islamic Art –] Visual Arts [continued –]* Art by Numbers?}[20th April 1991],] 134-137

**[– ibid (Encyclopaedia Britannica 13:997)]

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