generic term for grave marker found on a wall or ceiling/vault to draw attention to a floor tomb or grave; sometimes called a "formella" in Italian scholarship when referring to a framed stone block
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Decorative Elements
arms
the escutcheon, or shield, carries the arms in the heraldic achievement
Alternate Names: coat of arms; heraldry
Getty ID: 300126352
inscription
words, texts, lettering, or symbols carved, inlaid, or painted on a memorial
Alternate Names: monogram
Getty ID: 300028702
Material
marble
macigno
Database ID
13031
Dates
by 1418
installation
creation of memorial
1663
moved
tomb taken from its original location to another location within same church
probably had this role; for burials, the individual is owner/heir, and/or spouse, parent, or child is interred here; no conflicting evidence that the person is buried elsewhere
probably had this role; for burials, the individual is owner/heir, and/or spouse, parent, or child is interred here; no conflicting evidence that the person is buried elsewhere
probably had this role; for burials, the individual is owner/heir, and/or spouse, parent, or child is interred here; no conflicting evidence that the person is buried elsewhere
probably had this role; for burials, the individual is owner/heir, and/or spouse, parent, or child is interred here; no conflicting evidence that the person is buried elsewhere
maybe held this role; for burials, based on ancestry and/or generic inscription reference, the individual would have had burial rights, but no evidence has been found to confirm burial here
presumed role based on incomplete evidence; for burials, we know the burial is in this church, we think it is in this tomb; for patronage and other relationships, there is evidence to suggest the connection, but it has not been confirmed
person who receives rights to and responsibility for a memorial through inheritance
Alternate Names: descendant; inheritor
Getty ID: 300258972
April 23rd, 1625 to summer 1663
surmised
presumed role based on incomplete evidence; for burials, we know the burial is in this church, we think it is in this tomb; for patronage and other relationships, there is evidence to suggest the connection, but it has not been confirmed
[a] Stefano Rosselli, "Sepoltuario...fatto da me" p. 690
28. Sopra al detto [dalle Fonte] verso l'Altar grande Chiusino di macigno, e sopravi tassello di marmo con queste Arme e questa inscrizione
S. Joannis Michaelis Baldini, et suorum
[b] Giovanni Baldini's tomb was installed by 1418 to the left of the monks' choir between its balustrade and the northern nave wall, see plan no. 27.
[d] Nannina was buried in the Baldini tomb, which had reverted to the monastery. Her family would install a tomb for themselves adjacent to the Baldini monument in 1602. The Badia's Libro dei defunti notes that she was the sister of their monk don Josepho and the widow of an Antonio Bardi (or Barai, the hand is very difficult to read).
[e] The Badia necrology describes madonna Maddalena's burial place as the tomb of the dalle Fonti at the foot of the choir enclosure, which describes the Baldini family tomb that had passed to the dalle Fonti by 1581. It seems that even after Luca di Giovanni installed his tomb that the family continued to use the Baldini grave for the burial of their female relatives.
[f] Though Giovanni Francesco would have inherited the rights to the tomb of Giovanni Baldini which his family had used for female burials since 1581, he did not have any women to bury prior to the tomb's destruction in 1663.
[g] The dalle Fonti were given rights to use the tomb of Giovanni Baldini after his last descendant Alessandro di Dietaiuti Baldini was buried in it on January 22, 1556. The first document use by the dalle Fonti was for the burial of Nannina di Giovanni di Luca dalle Fonti in December 1581.
