Memorials

S. Croce crypt 051 tomb of Bartolo di Ciardo de' Spinelli and his descendants a

Rosselli Number	51.0
Memorial Type
Status	lost
Current Repository	na
Primary Installation	floor
Secondary Installation	with wall component(s)
Tomb Form	rectangular
Liturgical Orientation	W
Documented Types	sepoltura
Component Parts
Decorative Elements	b c shield shield-like motif, with a form combining oval and triangular elements, typically having three sides, often rounded, with the form being wider at the top and tapering to a point at the bottom; often elaborated with strap-work, scrolls, and mantling Alternate Names: shield of arms Getty ID: 300247394
Material	marble
Database ID	10427

1333

Ꞩ BARTOLI ▸ CIARDI Đ SPI= / nELLIS ▸ 7 DESCEnTIVM

The tomb of Bartolo di Ciardo de' Spinelli and of his descendants

1333 to circa 1934 (date is approximate)

1333 to circa 1934 (date is approximate)

S. Croce crypt 050.1 tomb of mona Lapa da Varlungo	1333 to 1440
S. Croce crypt 050.2 tomb of Michele dalla Pieve	circa 1440 (date is approximate) to 1528
S. Croce crypt 050.3 tomb of the Capitolo delle pinzochere di S. Francesco	1528 to circa 1808 (date is approximate)
S. Croce crypt 052 the women of Giuntino and Benincasa di Alamanno:	1333 to circa 1934 (date is approximate)

AOSC, 47, Sepoltuario del 1439 (copia)	pp. 9
AOSC, 46, Sepoltuario del 1596	fol. 10 right
G. V. Fantoni, Albero degli Spinelli	pp. 15
ASF, Manoscritti, 618, Sep. S. Croce 1596 (copy)	fol. 7, no. 51
ASF, Manoscritti, 624, Rosselli, Sepoltuario Fiorentino, 1657 (copy)	pp. 404, no. 51
ASF, Manoscritti, 619, Sep. S. Croce 1439	fol. 3, no. 51
S. Rosselli, Sepoltuario Fiorentino, autograph	pp. 465, no. 51
P. Jacks and W. Caferro, Spinelli of Florence	pp. 18–19, fig. 1

[] Note that Jacks and Caferro misidentified the location of Bartolo's tomb as in the chiostretto, when in fact, as Fantoni says, it was in the crypt, specifically in the western room associated with the Compagnia di Loreto.
[a] Vincenzo Giovanni Fantoni (p. 15) describes the tomb as affixed to an interior pier supporting the vaulting over the space where the Confraternity of Loreto (founded 1584) had once met.
[b] This tomb used the original Spinelli arms showing a lion surrounded by thorny branches, and not the later blazon that divided the field in two with a lion alone in the left half and vair fur in the right, as seen in later tombs in the church and the Spinelli cloister added in the fifteenth century.
[c] Discrepancies in the sources make it difficult to know whether they reflect an actual inscription or merely a record of ownership. Here we follow Fantoni's drawing (p. 56).