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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 di Gino di Lodovico di Agostino 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