Santa Croce...The Tombs and Pazzi Chapel

The burial tombs inside Santo Croce are of Dante Alghieri, Michelangelo, and Galileo
Harmony and balance is abundant in the archictectural spaces that Brunelleschi touched and created. It was quiet and provoking at the same time. Something more was realised than just an aesthetic judgment of beauty. The forms are incredible and create an awe in your heart and mind. Santa Croce is a Franciscan order cathedral that reached out to the poor of Florence, but it is in the space outside of Santa Croce in the Pazzi Chapel for example that I felt this harmony. This space seemed timeless and perfect. Brunelleschi took principles that earlier philosophers and mathematicians used in defining such perfect form and applied them to the Gothic and Renaissance works he was commisioned to design. The Florentine architect and engineer Filippo Brunelleschi was the first to carry out a series of experiments leading to a mathematical theory of perspective. Follow a link below to see some of his great buildings in Firenze. The interior of San Spirito is another favorite place, you can sit inside to escape the heat and meditate quietly absorbing the perfection of the interior space that has given refuge to many a soul.
http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Filippo_Brunelleschi.html