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Memorials

S. Croce 019 Cappella della Santa Cecilia e tutte le Vergini

Alternate Names

  • Benci Chapel
  • Cappella de Benci
  • Cappella delle Vergini
  • S. Croce 019 Cappella della Santa Cecilia e tutte le Vergini
Rosselli Number 19.0
Memorial Type chapel
Status partial
Current Repository in situ
Primary Installation na
Secondary Installation na
Tomb Form na
Liturgical Orientation E
Documented Types
  • cappella
Component Parts
  • mensa
Database ID 1

Dates

November 4th, 1926 a

Individuals (4 total)

Benci, Giovanni di Amerigo di Simone di S. Donato
1434 to 1455 b
Benci, Amerigo di Giovanni di Amerigo di Simone di S. Donato
1455
Benci, Amerigo di Giovanni di Amerigo di Giovanni di Amerigo
circa 1519 (date is approximate)
Capponi, Gino di Lodovico c
1590s

Groups (1 total)

Benci
circa 1298 to 1926 d

Related Memorials (3 total)

S. Croce 174 effigy tomb of Giovanni di Amerigo Benci
1455 e
S. Croce 175 Francesco di Francesco Berlinghieri:
S. Croce crypt 151 Sanne Benci

Notes

  • [a] chapel completely remodeled, no trace of original decorations
  • [b] Santa Croce accounts (ASF, Conv. Soppr. 92, 297) record that Giovanni made an annual bequest of wine and bread for the celebration in October of the feast of St. Cecilia, a promise reiterated in testament of 1445. He was buried at foot of chapel in 1455.
  • [c] Gino inherited the chapel through his wife Maddalena d'Amerigo Benci. He did not tend to the chapel which led to litigation.
  • [d] Though not documented until fifteenth century, the chapel has never been listed with a patron other than the Benci family. May correspond to patronage of tomb in crypt for Sanna Benci.
  • [e] Giovanni d'Amerigo Benci buried in his tomb at foot of chapel