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Memorials

S. Lorenzo 193 tomb of Piero di Salvi Salucci

Situated In

S. Lorenzo -- chiesa di Brunelleschi -- di sotto la chiesa

Rosselli Number	193.0
Memorial Type
Status	extant
Current Repository	moved
Primary Installation	floor
Secondary Installation	frn
Tomb Form	round
Liturgical Orientation	frn
Height	31.0
Length	31.0
Component Parts	cover
Decorative Elements
Material	green marble a light or dark green massive serpentinite, commonly with veinlets of calcium carbonate and magnesium carbonate. It is capable of being polished and is commercially considered a marble; it is also considered to be among the highest-quality serpentinites. Alternate Names: verde antico; verd antique Getty ID: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300171549
Database ID	32108

Dates

by 1463
first half of the sixteenth century a	decoration

Inscriptions (1 total)

• Ꞩ • PETRI • SALVI • MICHAELLIS • DESALVCCIS • 7 • SVOR

The tomb of Piero di Salvi di Michele of the Salucci family and of his own

Individuals (1 total)

Salucci, Piero di Salvi di Michele

Groups (1 total)

Sources (5 total)

Catalogo generale dei Beni Culturali	rec. 0900288477
ASF, Manoscritti, 624, Rosselli, Sepoltuario Fiorentino, 1657 (copy)	pp. 1213, no. 193
ASF, Manoscritti, 251, Priorista Mariani IV	fol. 801v
ASL, Sepoltuario S. Lorenzo 1726, ms. 2186
ASL, Sepoltuario vecchio di 1463, ms. 2214

Notes

[a] According to the Catalogo generale dei Beni Culturali, a family tomb was noted in the earliest surviving San Lorenzo sepoltuario compiled in 1463 but the round marker honoring Piero di Salvi Salucci has been dated to between 1500 and 1549 on stylistic grounds.