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Buildings

S. Croce

Affiliations (1 total)
  • Franciscans (OFM)
Database ID 30

Location

Alternate Names

  • Santa Croce
  • S. Croce di Firenze

Dates

1209 a
foundation
1228 b
1252 to 1267 c
renovation
1285 to 1294 d
renovation
May 7th, 1295 e
renovation
May 7th, 1295 to 1310 f
construction
1443 g
1566 h
renovation

Affiliated Groups (2 total)

frati di S. Croce
1295 to 1808
Opera di Santa Croce

Spaces (38 total)

Memorials (1253 total)

Memorialized Groups (693)

684 Families (click to expand)

Memorialized Individuals (196)

Sources (11 total)

ASC, Copia del sepoltuario di S. Croce del 1439, 47 (ex 182)
ASC, Copia del sepoltuario di S. Croce del 1596, 46 (ex 48), I 450
ASF, Corp. Rel. Soppr. GF, 92, 363: Santa Croce, Sepolture
G. Fanelli, Firenze, architettura e città, atlante pp. 11
ASF, Manoscritti, 620, S. Croce Buondelmonti
ASF, Manoscritti, 628, Sepoltuari da Francesco della Foresta pp. 516
ASF, Manoscritti, 624, Rosselli, Sepoltuario Fiorentino, 1657 (copy) pp. 267-443
ASF, Manoscritti, 619, Sepoltuario della Chiesa di Santa Croce
ASF, Manoscritti, 618, S. Croce
R. B. Litchfield, Online Gazetteer sq. 39, no. 1 and 51, no. 1
D. Herlihy et al., Online Tratte

Notes

  • [a] traditional date for arrival of first Franciscans in Florence
  • [b] coincides with Fanelli's foundation date of ca. 1226-1228
  • [c] second Franciscan church
  • [d] plans to rebuild discussed
  • [e] foundation stone laid for new, larger, and present church according to inscription recorded by Rosselli near Serristori altar
  • [f] chancel area mostly complete
  • [g] by Pope Eugenius IV
  • [h] demolition of tramezzo - Vasari's renovation project removes tramezzo and choir enclosure, disrupting altars, chapels, and tombs associated with it