Museum of Christian History

“…The dimensions of the sacristy square become the model for the room’s proportional scheme linking plan to elevation…equally influential was the sacristy’s central plan, whereby Bruneleschi established, as an important new architectural design, concentrically symmetrical forms such as squares, circles, or polygons, with all sides equidistant from the center…since central plan buildings in antiquity and in the Early Christian period often had been used as burial structures.”