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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
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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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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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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 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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The Bishop's chapel and tomb entries are coming along!
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#tombs #RenSky #Fiesole
July 14, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Closer view of Mino's portrait of the bishop. sepoltuario.iath.virginia.edu/individuals/...
July 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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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
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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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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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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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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
Poster representing website digital Sepoltuario with a band of floor tombs, insets of coats of arms and a sepoltuario manuscript page, an inset showing editor-in-chief Anne Leader with her bio, and a detail from an image of the burial of Saint Sebastian by a fourteenth-century Italian artist. Created by the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia.
March 13, 2024 at 5:59 PM
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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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Tomb fragment showing coat of arms of Ricci Family with alternating horizontal rows of stars (or really asterisks) and hedgehogs in a 2.2.4.3.4.2.3.1 pattern starting with two asterisks and ending in one hedgehog.
February 13, 2024 at 10:21 PM
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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
View of Piazza dietro San Firenze, prior to construction of the Oratorian complex in 1648, painted by Lorenzo Mariani to commemorate laying of foundation stone of new church. Florence, Oratorio di S. Filippo Neri. Photo by Sailko, CC BY 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
February 13, 2024 at 7:55 PM
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Communal tomb. San Niccolò al Ceppo, Florence
November 12, 2023 at 8:05 PM
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Comforting the Dying, Netherlands, 1520s, Rijksmuseum
November 10, 2023 at 8:23 PM
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So many sepoltuari, so little time…
November 10, 2023 at 8:20 PM