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Supports research on commemorating the dead in medieval and Renaissance Florence by aggregating physical, topographical, and socio-economic data extracted from hand-written sepoltuari (tomb registers) and other sources sepoltuario.iath.virginia.edu
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We've been working for a while on the Bonsi Succhielli family and their various memorials, including a chapel in the atrium of the Badia Fiorentina with a tomb. sepoltuario.iath.virginia.edu/memorials/13...
Round-arched doorway opening onto former chapel, now bookstore, at Benedictine monastery in Florence (Badia Fiorentina) Tomb of Bernardo di Francesco Bonsi and his heirs in floor of former chapel, now bookstore, at Benedictine monastery in Florence (Badia Fiorentina)
November 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Have I ever mentioned what a geek I am for family trees for @sepoltuario.bsky.social? #skystorians
November 13, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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On this All Saints Day I decided to reconstruct an altarpiece. Enjoy @sepoltuario.bsky.social!

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November 1, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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leaderannephd.bsky.social
Can you imagine writing something by hand that has 1,624 pages? @sepoltuario.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Hi #medievalsky #RenSky #historysky etc. what do you know about www.timemachine.eu/about-us/
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August 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Is it just us, or does Lorenzo Bartolini look a little like Ted Cruz? He was the last academy member to be buried in their chapel at Santissima Annunziata on January 20th, 1850. #history #Florence
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Portrait of the sculptor Lorenzo Bartolini by Ingres. Now in the Musée du Louvre, inv. RF 1942 24. https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010066397 He is dressed as a gentleman in a black long coat, black vest, and trousers. His white shirt is visible at the color and a little under his black cravat. He proudly puts his left hand on his hip, as he stands in three-quarter view in front of a table where he has placed his right hand in an authoritative gesture with thumb and forefinger spread wide, the knuckle of his finger bent to lie on the table. The table holds a portrait bust, books, and instruments suggesting Bartolini's learning and artistic skill.
August 27, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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The inscription on the banderoles woven through the bones is a paraphrase of Colossians 3:3: Mortui sumus et vita nostra abscondita est cum Christo in Deo. From "you" to "we" for the use of any member of the Accademia del disegno in #Florence who wished to use it. Chapel of St. Luke, SS. Annunziata
sepoltuario.bsky.social digital Sepoltuario @sepoltuario.bsky.social · Aug 27
We have been having fun with this tomb and its inscription today. May it [art and design] always flourish in spite of death!
Chapel of St. Luke, Santissima Annunziata, #Florence
#sepoltuario #tombs #italy
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A rectangular marble tomb slab with an oval removable cover at its center. The oval frames a collection of artist's tools like pencils, paint brushes, straight edges, squares and an inscription that reads: FLOREAT SEMPER VEL INVITA MORTE.
August 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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We have so many tabs open, we don't know where we are or what we are doing...
August 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
sepoltuario.bsky.social
We have been having fun with this tomb and its inscription today. May it [art and design] always flourish in spite of death!
Chapel of St. Luke, Santissima Annunziata, #Florence
#sepoltuario #tombs #italy
sepoltuario.iath.virginia.edu/inscriptions...
A rectangular marble tomb slab with an oval removable cover at its center. The oval frames a collection of artist's tools like pencils, paint brushes, straight edges, squares and an inscription that reads: FLOREAT SEMPER VEL INVITA MORTE.
August 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Oof! 17 days since the last post. Still going down #research rabbit holes, but the last few days have been focusing on the altarpiece and altar that once contained this beautiful thing! Lorenzo Monaco, The Prophet Isaiah, sold at Christie's Old Masters 1 May 2019. #ArtHistory #humanities
Roundel from the pinnacle of an altarpiece by Lorenzo Monaco showing the Prophet Isaiah against a gold background. His halo is punched and incised into the gold leave. He wears a blue head and shoulder covering over a red robe. He points with his right index finger to a scroll that reads ECCE VIGO COCIP, the abbreviated Latin text of his statement in Is. 7:14 "Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son.” Isaiah is shown as an old man with grey hair and beard and he has a serious expression with pinched eyebrows, furrowed brow, and downturned month. Formidable!
July 31, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Today’s rabbit hole is completing the #sepoltuario for the #Duomo in #Fiesole. Clearly need to pay a visit when next in #Italy 🇮🇹
July 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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July 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Any thoughts on who the figure his rising out of the feathered helmet to form the crest of this coat of arms? Tomb of Clemente Petra, installed 1574 in San Barnaba, Florence. He looks like Hercules to me. What say you #SkyStorians #PostModernSky?
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Wall tomb of Clemente Petra, Count of Silvano. Consists of a stone relief sculpture in the shape of a scrolled sarcophagus with a coat of arms at the center top over a lengthy inscription. See https://sepoltuario.iath.virginia.edu/memorials/31978 for more.
July 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Shout out to @adapalmer.bsky.social for linking the object on the right to Saint Leonard, whose typical attribute is a set of broken iron fetters. The object on the left, still closed, represented those still in chains at the prison nearby the church where their communal tomb carried the symbol.
sepoltuario.bsky.social digital Sepoltuario @sepoltuario.bsky.social · Jul 6
Here is a similar symbol, but with three, interlocked bars, assuming it is a shackle since it decorated a tomb for prisoners. The object on the left has reminded some of a horse bit or bridle component. #MedievalSky #Skystorians sepoltuario.iath.virginia.edu/memorials/30...
July 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Here is a similar symbol, but with three, interlocked bars, assuming it is a shackle since it decorated a tomb for prisoners. The object on the left has reminded some of a horse bit or bridle component. #MedievalSky #Skystorians sepoltuario.iath.virginia.edu/memorials/30...
A triangle made of three bars attached to rings. Seemingly a shackle from Renaissance Italy. Archivio di Stato di Firenze, Manoscritti, 624, p. 553. Photo: Anne Leader
July 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Puzzling case of a nominative where it shouldn't be. Either the antiquarian erred in his transcription, or the text originally had a verb and dative to make the nominative make sense. These are the things we worry about. #MedievalSky #SkyStorians
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Page from a copy of Stefano Rosselli's Sepoltuario Fiorentino kept at the Archivio di Stato in Florence. ASFi, Manoscritti, 625, p. 1383.
July 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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leaderannephd.bsky.social
Several reposts but no replies. Any ideas what this is? Decorated a tomb in Florence that was installed before 1580.
leaderannephd.bsky.social Anne Leader @leaderannephd.bsky.social · Jul 2
Puzzling over this symbol. Does #MedievalSky #SkyStorians know what it could be? I believe I have also seen this configuration with three bars forming a triangle. It was carved/incised into a tomb in the church of San Barnaba, Florence
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A presumably metal bar with rings at each end, bent in the center and looped through a third ring.
July 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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leaderannephd.bsky.social
Puzzling over this symbol. Does #MedievalSky #SkyStorians know what it could be? I believe I have also seen this configuration with three bars forming a triangle. It was carved/incised into a tomb in the church of San Barnaba, Florence
sepoltuario.iath.virginia.edu/memorials/31...
A presumably metal bar with rings at each end, bent in the center and looped through a third ring.
July 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Today we are working on the Cederni family and trying to figure out if those called Cedernelli were in fact of the same lineage. #history #medievalsky

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June 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Things have been going smoothly all week, but the admin side of digital Sepoltuario seems to be bitten by the bugs again. Many additions to the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli! Enjoy while we try to get back to work.
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#MedievalSky #monastery #Florence
Drawing by Bartolommeo Rustici of Santa Maria degli Angioli as it appeared in the mid fifteenth century from his codex now kept at the Biblioteca del Seminario Arcivescovile Maggiore di Firenze. A walled enclosure (which faced via degli Alfani), shows two entrances and the unfinished rotonda begun by Filippo Brunelleschi on its north side. Behind the wall we see cloisters flanking the church on either side, that to the east with a separate chapel opening off of it towards the eastern enclosure wall. Walled gardens stretch out beyond the monastic complex toward the south.
June 13, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Now out on one of our memorials! Anne Leader, "A Bookseller and His Tomb..." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 165 no. 3, 2024, p. 59-106. dx.doi.org/10.1353/pro....

#medievalsky #history #SkyStorians #RenSky #RenaissanceSky #EarlyModern #EarlyModernSky
Project MUSE - A Bookseller and His Tomb: Social and Spiritual Ambitions in Renaissance Florence
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June 11, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Will the bot gods be on our side today? Here's hoping...
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May 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Between web crawlers and trying to find alternate funding to make up for our revoked #NEHgrant, we haven't made much progress on tombs today! But, as late in the afternoon as it is, we get to work now!
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NEH Award PW-296829-24, University of Chicago
Florence Illuminated: Visualizing the History of Art, Architecture, and Society
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May 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Web crawlers have been interrupting our site’s functionality. We apologize for any inconvenience. #techproblems #DHdownside
May 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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What's in a name? Well, when your sources give conflicting patronyms, quite a lot. Very happy to have resolved that Filippo da Ghiacceto, who co-inherited a tomb in #SantaCroce with his first cousin once removed Paolo di Zanobi da Ghiacceto, was most likely the son of Giovanni di Mugnaio di Recco.
Coat of arms with gold over black field and a rampant lion in the opposite colors (black on gold over gold on black). His red tongue and claws of his forepaws match the three-pronged label that crosses the shield at the lion's chest. Used by the da Ghiacceto family, sometimes called the da Diacceto, who held the priorate, Republican Florence's highest office, 35 times between 1294 and 1522. https://sepoltuario.iath.virginia.edu/individuals/2045
May 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM