The Pazzi Chapel is one of Florence's most prestigious gems and a masterpiece of renaissance architecture.The building was designed and built in part by the master architect Filippo Brunelleschi (c. 1430) on request of the Pazzi family. What is so unique about this work is that the chapel had to be designed and built within the confines of the already standing surrounding constructions (ie the church and convent).It is a testimony to Brunelleschi's genius that the finished product could result is a building of such uniform elegance and symmetry. After Brunelleschi died (1446) the work was continued by others, then left partially incomplete when the Pazzi family were banished from the city in 1478.The most striking feature of the chapel is its vaulted dome with oculi (round windows).The cupola seems to rise, in an umbrella-like fashion, and is topped by a lantern.