Memorials

S. Croce cloister 153.2 tomb of Luca Salvucci da Capraia

Rosselli Number	153.0
Memorial Type
Status	extant
Current Repository	in situ
Primary Installation	floor
Secondary Installation	with wall component(s)
Tomb Form	rectangular
Liturgical Orientation	N
Height	46.0
Width	32.0
Documented Types	sepoltura
Component Parts
Decorative Elements	bird
Material	Carrara marble type of marble quarried in the area around Carrara, Tuscany, Italy (Luna in antiquity), characterized by a fine, compact grain and varies in color from pure white to creamy white, sometimes with a bluish tinge; a favorite stone of sculptors from antiquity to the present, including Michelangelo Buonarotti (1475-1564) Getty ID: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300011576
Database ID	11715

later fourteenth century a

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The tomb of Luca Salvucci da Capraia and of his own

Salvucci, Luca di Salvuccio (da Capraia)	circa 1390s (date is approximate) to present
Salvucci, Antonio di Luca di Salvuccio	June 11th, 1400	b
Salvucci, Luca di Salvuccio (da Capraia)	before 1427
Salvucci, Lorenzo di Luca di Salvuccio (correggiaio)	by 1439
Salvucci, Lorenzo di Luca di Lorenzo di Luca di Salvuccio
Salvucci, Luca di Lorenzo di Luca di Salvuccio

circa 1390s (date is approximate) to present

circa 1390s (date is approximate)

AOSC, 47, Sepoltuario del 1439 (copia)	pp. 65
Catalogo generale dei Beni Culturali	rec. 0900283473
ASF, Manoscritti, 253, Priorista Mariani VI	fol. 1283v
ASF, Manoscritti, 619, Sep. S. Croce 1439	fol. 12
ASF, Manoscritti, 624, Rosselli, Sepoltuario Fiorentino, 1657 (copy)	pp. 370, no. 153

[a] Given the lack of date on the tomb marker, it is likely that Luca installed the memorial himself, possibly in time for the burial of his young son Antonio in June 1400. Luca himself would be buried there between 1409 and 1426, for his wife's status was widow in their son's 1427 catasto declaration. The Catalogo generale dates the tomb on stylistic grounds to the fourteenth century.
[b] Burial records confirm that Antonio di Luca di Salvuccio was a resident of San Jacopo parish and buried in Santa Croce. Whether the tomb was already present or inspired by his death is not known.