Stake attention in this memory
The image displays an informational sign within a museum setting. The sign, rectangular with rounded corners, stands on black metal supports against a dark wooden background. It features text in two columns: Italian on the left and English on the right, both titled "The Treasure of San Lorenzo." The text details the historical "Treasure of the Basilica of San Lorenzo," which has been on loan to the museum since 1945. It comprises a selection of the church's liturgical collection, prominently featuring gifts from Popes Leo X (1475-1521) and Clement VII (1478-1534). This includes a significant portion of hard stone reliquaries previously housed in the Chapel of Relics at the Pitti Palace. Specific objects mentioned are rock crystal, amethyst, and jasper vases, some from Lorenzo the Magnificent's collection, used to safeguard precious relics acquired by Leo X from Greece and Constantinople. The display also highlights a silver crosier, a pearl-studded mitre, and a Medici-crested processional cloth donated by Leo. Other reliquaries were commissioned by the Grand Dukes and their consorts from court manufactories. Some items from the Palatine Chapel in Pitti Palace were exchanged in 1785 for sacred vessels now exhibited at the Treasury of the Grand Dukes. Prominently displayed at the bottom of the sign are the logos and names of "MUSEI DEL BARGELLO" (Bargello Museums) on the left and "MUSEO DELLE CAPPELLE MEDICEE" (Museum of the Medici Chapels) on the right, indicating its location within a Florentine museum context. The lighting is even, ensuring the legibility of the detailed historical and descriptive text. The sign itself is vertically oriented, though the photograph is rotated, presenting the text sideways.
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