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Memorials

S. Maria Novella 008a Altare de Ricasoli

Situated In

S. Maria Novella -- Aisle, right (east)
circa 1572 (date is approximate) to present

Alternate Names

  • Altare di S. Paolo
  • Altare di S. Raimondo di Pennefort
Rosselli Number 8.0
Memorial Type altar
Status extant
Current Repository in situ
Primary Installation na
Secondary Installation na
Tomb Form na
Liturgical Orientation S
Documented Types
  • altare
Component Parts
  • mensa
  • tomb
Decorative Elements
Database ID 126

Dates

circa 1572 (date is approximate)
circa 1572 (date is approximate) to circa 1575 (date is approximate) a
decoration
circa 1602 (date is approximate) b
decoration

Individuals (1 total)

Ricasoli, Giovanni Battista (vescovo) di Simone di Ranieri di Andrea di Naldo
circa 1572 (date is approximate)

Groups (1 total)

Ricasoli
circa 1572 (date is approximate) to present

Related Memorials (2 total)

S. Maria Novella 008b tomb of Bishop Ricasoli:
S. Maria Novella Tomb of Bishop fra Bartolomeo Rimbertini 1466
circa 1572 (date is approximate) to circa 1575 (date is approximate)

Sources (4 total)

Catalogo generale dei Beni Culturali rec. 0900285773 (altarpiece frame), 0900117513 (Sebastiano altarpiece), 0900285772 (Ligozzi altarpiece)
ASF, Manoscritti, 628, Sepoltuari da Francesco della Foresta pp. 332
ASF, Manoscritti, 625, Rosselli, Sepoltuario Fiorentino, 1657 (copy) pp. 683
ASF, Manoscritti, 812, Sermartelli, Sep. S. M. Novella (copy) pp. 47-48 o.s.

Notes

  • [a] The Ricasoli altar was first dedicated to St. Peter and adorned with an altarpiece by Vini Bastiano known as Sebastiano Versonese showing the Conversion of St. Paul. Around 1602 this painting was moved to the sacristy and the altar was redidicated.
  • [b] The Ricasoli altar was rededicated to St. Raymond of Peñafort, a Dominican friar canonized by Pope Clement VIII in 1601. A new altarpiece was commissioned from Jacopo Ligozzi, who included a reference to the original altar's dedication by depicting a marble altarpiece of the Conversion of St. Paul in the composition of St. Raymond Resuscitating a Child, which still adorns the altar today. According to the Catalogo generale, the altarpiece frame is that originally created by Vasari and his team in the early 1570s.