Memorials

S. Barnaba 07a pittura e sepoltura: frescoes a

circa 1385 (date is approximate) to circa 1390 (date is approximate) c

decoration

S. Barnaba 06 Altare degl'Aldobrandini di Madonna
S. Barnaba 07b pittura e sepoltura: tomb:
S. Barnaba 08 pittura e sepoltura:

Catalogo generale dei Beni Culturali	rec. 0900189580A-0 to 5
ASF, Manoscritti, 625, Rosselli, Sepoltuario Fiorentino, 1657 (copy)	pp. 1382-1383, no. 7

[a] Stefano Rosselli knew of this tomb-with-painting memorial from a sepoltuario dated 1580 but noted that the painting was not visible in 1657. The frescoes, datable to the late fourteenth century, were rediscovered in 1892.
[b] Stefano Rosselli drew this memorial's coat of arms as a circle of six balls, but the surviving fresco, which had been covered with whitewash by Rosselli's day, makes clear that the stemma consisted of a silver shield with three rows of balls in an upside-down triangular pattern and appear to be black. The Bonizi family arms conform to this blazoning.

The frescoes, discovered in 1892, had suffered a great deal of damage when whitewashed and have since been restored. Thus the identification of the arms should be taken with caution.
[c] Discovered in 1892, these frescoes have been variously attributed. Most recently, Miklós Boskovits suggested that they were a collaboration between Cenni di Francesco di ser Cenni and Lorenzo di Bicci, and he dated them to the second half of the 1380s (catalogo rec. 0900189580A-0).
[d] The arms painted in the framing elements of the frescoes are the closest to those of the Bonizi family with six black balls on a silver shield.