Memorials

S. Frediano 09.1 Altare de Bucetti a

Rosselli Number 9.0
Memorial Type altar
Status lost
Current Repository na
Primary Installation na
Secondary Installation na
Tomb Form na
Liturgical Orientation S
Documented Types
  • altare
  • imbasamento
Component Parts
  • mensa
  • base
  • tomb
  • c
Decorative Elements
Database ID 31385

Individuals (2 total)

Bucetti, Leonardo di Cristoforo di Matteo
Bucetti, Taddeo di Cristoforo di Matteo

Groups (1 total)

Bucetti

Related Memorials (5 total)

S. Frediano 06a Altare de Tazzi da Mosciano
S. Frediano 08 Altare antico della Compagnia d'Orsanmichele d
S. Frediano 09.2 sepoltura Leonardo and Taddeo Bucetti:
S. Frediano 10 Altare de Comparini:
S. Pier Gattolini Cappella di S. Caterina d'Alessandria de Bucetti

Notes

  • [a] According to Vasari, the Bucetti altarpiece was by Piero di Cosimo and had adorned an altar in San Pier Gattolini until the church was destroyed in 1545, and the painting and family tomb were brought to San Frediano. For more on this chapel see Alessandro Nesi, “52 a-b. Piero di Cosimo. Due angeli con turbioli e corona; Sposalizio mistico di santa Caterina d’Alessandria con san Giovanni Battista, santa Maria Maddalena e san Sebastiano.” In Piero di Cosimo 1462-1522: Pittore eccentrico fra Rinascimento e Maniera (Florence: Giunti, 2015), 316–19; and Enrico Mercani, La chiesa di S. Pier Gattolini a Firenze nel Cinquecento. Quaderni di Maniera (Florence: Maniera, 2017), 8-10.
  • [b] While Rosselli calls the north side of the church the "banda della strada" (street side), he does not give a moniker to the south side except to note that he is continuing his counter-clockwise movement through the church and turning back towards the high altar as he describes what is the right hand wall in that direction.
  • [c] The altarpiece was split into two pieces some time after 1761. The fragments are kept at the National Gallery of Scotland and a private collection in Florence. They were restored in conjunction with the 2015 exhibition on Piero di Cosimo at the Uffizi. See Alessandro Nesi, “52 a-b. Piero di Cosimo. Due angeli con turbioli e corona; Sposalizio mistico di santa Caterina d’Alessandria con san Giovanni Battista, santa Maria Maddalena e san Sebastiano.” In Piero di Cosimo 1462-1522: Pittore eccentrico fra Rinascimento e Maniera, 316–19. Florence: Giunti, 2015; Anna Teresa Monti and Lisa Venerosi Pesciolini. “La ricomposizione di un Piero di Cosimo perduto: il restauro della Pala con lo Sposalizio mistico di S. Caterina e della Lunetta con i due Angeli che sorreggono la corona;” and Lesley Stevenson, “Piero di Cosimo: Two Angels Return to Florence from Edinburgh." In Piero Di Cosimo: Painter of Faith and Fable, edited by Dennis Geronimus and Michael Kwakkelstein, 289–306 and 309-12. Boston: Brill, 2019.
  • [d] The Bucetti altar was first on the right wall upon entering the church and kitty-corner to the Orsanmichele Company's altar.