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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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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

We have so many tabs open, we don't know where we are or what we are doing...

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.

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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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!

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

The Bishop's chapel and tomb entries are coming along!
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#tombs #RenSky #Fiesole

Closer view of Mino's portrait of the bishop. sepoltuario.iath.virginia.edu/individuals/...

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

Today’s rabbit hole is completing the #sepoltuario for the #Duomo in #Fiesole. Clearly need to pay a visit when next in #Italy 🇮🇹

Alas this is the best picture for now. Will have to go look at it in October!

If you need to brush up on/learn Latin, I highly recommend their short course. I took the Beginner 2x and the Intermediate once. #Latin #MedievalSky

Or Poseidon.

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.

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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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.

What is the source of your photo of the horse bit? Thanks!

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...

Another part of the thread someone suggested and posted a photo of a horse bridle.

Page from a copy of Stefano Rosselli's Sepoltuario Fiorentino kept at the Archivio di Stato in Florence. ASFi, Manoscritti, 625, p. 1383.

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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Several reposts but no replies. Any ideas what this is? Decorated a tomb in Florence that was installed before 1580.

A presumably metal bar with rings at each end, bent in the center and looped through a third ring.

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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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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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.

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

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

Will the bot gods be on our side today? Here's hoping...
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NEH Award PW-296829-24, University of Chicago Florence Illuminated: Visualizing the History of Art, Architecture, and Society

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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Web crawlers have been interrupting our site’s functionality. We apologize for any inconvenience. #techproblems #DHdownside

Thank you! After feeling guilt about posting give all of the horrible things happened in the world, we are setting out to offer updates on our work as a salve to the doom scrolling.

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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

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.