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digital Sepoltuario
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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
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...
November 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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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August 27, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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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August 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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
July 31, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The Bishop's chapel and tomb entries are coming along!
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#tombs #RenSky #Fiesole
July 14, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Closer view of Mino's portrait of the bishop. sepoltuario.iath.virginia.edu/individuals/...
July 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Reading this very interesting article on the Salutati #tomb, sculpted by Mino da Fiesole, published by Jeanette Kohl. www.researchgate.net/profile/Jean...
#sepoltuario #RenSky #RenaissanceSky
July 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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
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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July 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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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July 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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
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.
sepoltuario.iath.virginia.edu/buildings/88
#MedievalSky #monastery #Florence
June 13, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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.
May 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
We have found several tombs around Florence dedicated by apothecaries who did not use a surname but did identify themselves as speziali.
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May 19, 2024 at 2:19 AM
We love it when we find out that one of our memorials still exists! This statue of the Virgin Mary and Christ child was installed by Terrino di Giovanni Manovelli over his father's tomb in Santa Maria Maggiore

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May 15, 2024 at 5:43 PM
One #tomb just wasn't enough for some #Florentines. Check out the story of Giovanni di Tedice Manovelli -- convicted for election fraud in 1361 and memorialized in both his parish church and with the Dominicans at Santa Maria Novella.

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May 14, 2024 at 4:06 PM
Have you checked out our historical overview of Florentine tomb culture? You can do it here:

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May 9, 2024 at 11:25 PM
Thrilled to report that
@leaderannephd.bsky.social has just received funding from the American Philosophical Society to continue work on the fascinating tomb of Filippo di S. Giovanni Pandolfini that was presented this morning at #RenSA2024

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March 22, 2024 at 9:45 PM
We are thrilled to represent IATH @ UVA at the upcoming grand opening of the refurbished UVA Library celebrations in April. www.library.virginia.edu/about-uva-li...
March 13, 2024 at 5:59 PM
We have also enjoyed updating the tomb of Corso d'Ardingo Ricci today. Was this what was most needed? No. Was it fun to work on? Yes. #medieval #renaissance #memorialization

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February 13, 2024 at 10:21 PM
Today has seen updates to the entry on the church of San Firenze, one of Florence's original thirty-six parishes and later an Oratorian community. We'd love for you to check it out! sepoltuario.iath.virginia.edu/buildings/75

Photo by Sailko, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
February 13, 2024 at 7:55 PM
Communal tomb. San Niccolò al Ceppo, Florence
November 12, 2023 at 8:05 PM
Comforting the Dying, Netherlands, 1520s, Rijksmuseum
November 10, 2023 at 8:23 PM
So many sepoltuari, so little time…
November 10, 2023 at 8:20 PM