Rucellai Sepulchre
| Rucellai Sepulchre | |
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Tempietto del Santo Sepolcro | |
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| General information | |
| Type | funerary chapel |
| Architectural style | Renaissance |
| Location | Rucellai Chapel, San Pancrazio, Florence, Italy |
| Coordinates | 43°46′19″N 11°15′00″E / 43.77196°N 11.24990°E |
| Construction started | about 1458 |
| Completed | 1467 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Leon Battista Alberti |
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The Rucellai Sepulchre is a small funerary chapel built inside the Rucellai Chapel of the church of San Pancrazio, Florence. It was commissioned by Giovanni di Paolo Rucellai and built to designs by Leon Battista Alberti in imitation or emulation of the Holy Sepulchre in the Anastasis in Jerusalem. It contains the tombs of Giovanni Rucellai and members of his family.