Memorials

S. Croce church 104.1b holy water font of Francesco di Bartolino di Chiaro de Benvenuti a

Situated In

friary of S. Croce -- chiesa -- right aisle

Alternate Names

Nobili family water font

Rosselli Number	104.0
Memorial Type
Status	lost
Current Repository	na
Primary Installation	na
Secondary Installation	na
Tomb Form	na
Liturgical Orientation	S
Documented Types	pila
Component Parts	base b water font c
Decorative Elements
Material
Database ID	31833

Dates

before 1379

Inscriptions (2 total)

2454	[Francisci] Bartolini Chiari de Benvenutis	Of Francesco di Bartolino Chiari de Benvenutis
2453	Hoc opus factu. est pro remedio Anę infrascripti Francisci et suor.	This work was made for the salvation of the soul of the below-written Francesco and of his own.

Individuals (1 total)

Benvenuti, Francesco di Bartolino di Chiaro (Bartolini)

circa 1350s (date is approximate) to circa 1600 (date is approximate) d

Groups (2 total)

Benvenuti
Nobili

Related Memorials (1 total)

S. Croce church 104.1a tomb of Francesco d'Antonio Benvenuti

Sources (5 total)

ASF, Manoscritti, 619, Sep. S. Croce 1439	fol. 16, no. 49
ASF, Manoscritti, 628, Sepoltuari da Francesco della Foresta	pp. 585, no. 59
ASF, Manoscritti, 624, Rosselli, Sepoltuario Fiorentino, 1657 (copy)	pp. 304, no. 104
ASF, Manoscritti, 618, Sep. S. Croce 1596 (copy)	fol. 75-75v
Stefano Rosselli, Sepoltuario Fiorentino, autograph	pp. 344-345, no. 104

Notes

[a] The history of water font and its accompanying tomb is complicated by the fact that its condition was significantly compromised between the compilation of the 1439 and 1440 sepoltuari and that of 1596. The monument had suffered more damage by 1652 when Stefano Rosselli noted that the water font had been ruined and broken into pieces (rovinata et in pezzi), a detail omitted in the ASFi copy. Moreover, the fourteenth-century patrons of this tomb complex used the surname Benvenuti, but the family changed its name to Nobili in 1379 and modified their arms of a blue shield with two silver bendlets (thin diagonals) framing two crossed daggers, replacing the weapons with a pattern of fleur-de-lis. Though Francesco della Foresta and Stefano Rosselli drew the Nobili arms with the lilies, della Foresta noted that in fact no lilies were present, whether from erosion or because the Benvenuti arms were never updated is unclear. Furthermore, it seems that the monument was commissioned by two cousins named Francesco: Francesco d'Antonio di Chiaro Benvenuti installed the tomb slab and Francesco di Bartolino di Chiaro Benvenuti put his name on the water font. The monument was inherited by the grandsons of Francesco di Bartolino, who all used the surname Nobili.
[b] The base of the font carried a coat of arms and an inscription.
[c] The basin of the font carried an inscription.
[d] The 1596 sepoltuario describes the inscription at the base of the water font as ruined, able to make out only the honoree's patronyms and surname, but a second inscription above on the basin named "the below written Francesco." In 1615, only a coat of arms is mentioned by Francesco della Foresta, and in 1652 Stefano Rosselli descrbied the font as broken.