Memorials

S. Croce 23 Cappella Niccolini

Alternate Names

  • Cappella dell'Assunzione
Rosselli Number 23.0
Memorial Type chapel
Status extant
Current Repository in situ
Primary Installation floor
Secondary Installation frn
Tomb Form na
Liturgical Orientation E
Documented Types
  • cartella
  • marmi
  • cappella
Component Parts
  • plaque
  • revetment
  • mensa
  • tomb
Decorative Elements
  • a
Database ID 30033

Dates

1664 b
inscription

Inscriptions (1 total)

1822 Deo
et D[ominae] Virgini Dei Genitrici Mariae
in Coelum Assumptae
Ioan[nes] Nicolinius Ang[eli] Cardinalis F[ilius]
hoc a se constructum ornatumq[ue]
Sacellum pie dicavit
An[no] ab eiusdem Dei parae Virg. partu
MDLXXXV

To God, and to Lady Virgin Mary Mother of God, Assumed into Heaven. Giovanni son of Cardinal Agnolo of the Niccolini family, himself had this chapel constructed and decorated faithfully, dedicated in the one thousand five hundred and eighty-fifth year from the birth of God by the pair.

Individuals (1 total)

Niccolini Sirigatti, Giovanni di Agnolo di Matteo di Agnolo
1585

Groups (1 total)

Niccolini Sirigatti
1585

Related Memorials (1 total)

S. Croce 1439.07 Cappella della Vergine Maria della Compagnia delle Laude
1585 c

Notes

  • [a] Niccolini arms on exterior of chapel over Via dei Malcontenti and inside
  • [b] Inscription over entrance door from north transept gives date MDCLXIV
  • [c] patronage rights patronage rights bought by Giovanni Niccolini who dedicated chapel to the Assumption