named in memorial inscription and/or represented by coat of arms
Alternate Names: dedicatee
Getty ID: 300404867
1402 to 1808
documented
information found in sepoltuario, tomb inscription, burial, and/or other records
Notes
[a] In 1251, the Guelfs changed the colors of the Florentine flag, which had been a silver lily on a red field, to a red lily on a silver, or white, field, a change referenced by Dante in Paradiso XVI:153-154 and Giovanni Villani, Cronica, VI.43. This configuration remains the symbol of Florence today. The Florentine republic was constituted from 1282 through 1532 after which it became a duchy, ruled by the Medici family through the death of Grand Duke Gian Gastone on 9 July 1737.
[b] The lily of Florence was installed over the chapel's entrance. Though the colors in the ASFi copy of Rosselli have a light flower on a dark ground, the arms of the Florentine commune can be recognized in the single, large fleur-de-lis, whose dark flower (red) on a light shield (silver) were represented correctly in Rosselli's autograph. The Florentine lily also adorns the facade of the church.
