Memorials

Angeli 12.1 Cappella di Sant'Antonio Abate de dal Canto

Situated In

S. Maria degli Angeli -- chiostro di ponente (della sacrestia) -- capitolo

Alternate Names

  • Cappella dal Canto Corsi
  • Dal Canto Chapel of Saint Anthony
  • Nuova cappella di Sant'Antonio Abate
Rosselli Number 12.0
Memorial Type chapel
Status lost
Current Repository na
Primary Installation na
Secondary Installation na
Tomb Form na
Liturgical Orientation S
Documented Types
  • cappella
  • tavola
Component Parts
  • mensa
Decorative Elements
Database ID 31934

Dates

February 1st, 1354 a
by November 1st, 1364 b
decoration
1363 to 1364 c
renovation
circa 1529 (date is approximate) d

Individuals (1 total)

dal Canto, Agnolo di Vanni
January 31st, 1353 e

Groups (2 total)

dal Canto
February 1st, 1354 to circa 1529 (date is approximate)
 f
Corsi
circa 1529 (date is approximate)

Related Memorials (3 total)

Angeli 07a Cappella di S. Pietro del Palagio
1364
Angeli 11 Cappella di San Giovanni Battista de Benini
1364
Angeli 12.2 Cappella di Sant'Antonio Abate de Corsi:
1529 or 1656

Sources (4 total)

G. Tigler, “Lo sviluppo architettonico del complesso" pp. 54-55, fig. 8, no. 9; 59; 61; 64, fig. 15, no. 55
ASF, Manoscritti, 625, Rosselli, Sepoltuario Fiorentino, 1657 (copy) pp. 1323-1324, no. 12
G.R. Bent, “Santa Maria degli Angeli" pp. 121-123, 127, 134, 145-147, 155, 157, 224n127, 330, 336, 544; 607, doc. 1; 620, doc. 10; 711, doc. 89; 719, doc. 96
D. Gordon, "The paintings" pp. 191-192

Notes

  • [a] Agnolo di Vanni dal Canto left funds in his testament written the day before he died to endow a chapel in the chapter room dedicated to St. Anthony Abbot. In addition to building and furnishing the chapel, the monks were required to celebrate a mass for Agnolo's soul each year on the feast of Saint Anthony (17 January) and the Assumption of the Virgin (15 August). See Bent 1993, 620, doc. 10; 711, doc. 89; 719, doc. 96; and Tigler 54-55.
  • [b] Mass was said in the new chapel of Saint Anthony on the feast of All Saints (Ognissanti). It is unknown whether an altarpiece requested in Agnolo del Canto's will was reused in the old chapel or made anew, though likely the former. It was replaced by the Corsi family when they took over the chapel's patronage rites. This painting does not seem to survive.
  • [c] The monks decided to expand their chapter room with several new chapels which necessitated the destruction and rebuilding of the Saint Anthony Abbot chapel in honor of Agnolo dal Canto's original bequest.
  • [d] The dal Canto chapel dedicated to St. Anthony Abbot passed to the Corsi family. While Tigler (2022, p. 61 and n90) gives the date of 1411 for this transfer, it seems instead to have taken place in 1529 when the Camaldolese monastery of San Benedetto fuori Porta a Pinti was demolished and its artworks brought to the Angeli. According to Richa, a plaque in the chapel dedicated in 1656 describes the original Corsi family chapel in San Benedetto
  • [e] Agnolo dal Canto stipulated in his will that he wanted to use part of his estate to fund a chapel dedicated to Saint Anthony Abbot at the Camaldolese monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli even though his tomb was in Santa Maria Novella.
  • [f] The chapel was endowed by Agnolo dal Canto, but it remains unclear whether his coat of arms was visible in the chapel.