Memorials

Badia 045b Cederni Trinity with Saints a

Situated In

Badia Fiorentina -- chiesa di Arnolfo -- presbytery b

Alternate Names

Cholmo di Bartolomeo Cederni

Memorial Type
Status	extant
Current Repository	Museo di Santa Croce
Primary Installation	wall
Secondary Installation	no additional components
Tomb Form	na
Liturgical Orientation	frn
Documented Types	tavola colmo
Database ID	31962

Dates

August 17th, 1461 c	decoration
circa 1462 (date is approximate)
1814 d

Individuals (1 total)

Cederni, Bartolomeo di Cederno di Bartolomeo di Giovanni di Neri

August 17th, 1461

Related Memorials (2 total)

Badia 045a Bartolomeo Cederni 1456	circa 1462 (date is approximate) to circa 1627 (date is approximate) e
Badia Covoni San Mauro Chapel Tomb	after 1627

Sources (2 total)

Catalogo generale dei Beni Culturali	rec. 0900655613
A. Guidotti, Vicende storico-artistiche	pp. 108, 129n63

Notes

[a] This image was known to have been painted by Neri di Bicci beginning on August, 8th, 1461 at the behest of Bartolomeo Cederni. It may have been hung near to his tomb, which he installed in 1456. Upon renovation of the church interior, the picture was moved to the new Covoni chapel dedicated to San Mauro, where Placido Puccinelli saw it in 1664, as suggested by Alessandro Guidotti (129n63), rather than in the presbytery chapel that belonged to the Covoni in the second iteration of the Badia's church.
[b] Placido Puccinelli mentions that Neri di Bicci's altarpiece was in the Covoni chapel in 1664, but it remains unclear whether it was originally comissioned for this spot. While Neri records that he painted it in 1461 for the Badia at Bartolomeo Cederni's request, he is not specific about where it was installed.
[c] Neri Bicci noted in his Ricordanze that he began painting a "cholmo" about 5 braccia high and three wide on August 17th, 1461. Giuliano da Maiano was responsible for the frame. Neri's diary did not note when the picture was installed or where, but by 1664 it was in the Covoni chapel.
[d] As part of the Napoleonic suppression, the painting was taken to the church of Santa Croce and installed in its Novitiate. It was later moved to the Museo di Santa Croce, where it remains on view today.
[e] The altarpiece was begun on August 18th, 1461. It is not known when it was delivered nor where it was installed though near to the tomb of its patron, Bartolomeo Cederni, is a logical guess.