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Buildings

S. Francesco de'Macci

Affiliations (1 total)
  • Franciscans (OFM)
Database ID 39

Location

Alternate Names

  • Convento di San Francesco di Firenze
  • Monastero di S. Francesco
  • San Francesco ad Templum
  • San Francesco al Tempio

Dates

1335
 foundation
1517 b
decoration
1705
 renovation
1808

Affiliated Groups (1 total)

monache di S. Francesco de'Macci
1349 to 1810

Spaces (3 total)

Memorials (3 total)

Memorialized Groups (2)

2 Families (click to expand)

Memorialized Individuals (2)

Sources (1 total)

ASF, Manoscritti, 624, Rosselli, Sepoltuario Fiorentino, 1657 (copy) pp. 444

Notes

  • [a] Francesco de'Macci left provisions in his testament of 1310 to fund a hospital dedicated to Saint Francis, which his son Caio carried out in 1335. In 1349 a Clarissan convent was built adjacent, and their community was placed under the auspices of the friars at nearby Santa Croce in 1483. Andrea del Sarto's Madonna of the Harpies adorned the church high altar after 1517 but was acquired by Duke Ferdinando de'Medici in 1704 when he hired Giovanni Battista Foggini to modernize the church. The institution was suppressed in 1808.
  • [b] Andrea del Sarto installed his image of the Virgin and Child known as the Madonna of the Harpies where it remained until 1704.