Memorials

S. Procolo 04.2 Altare della Visitazione de Capponi-Salviati a

Situated In

Rosselli Number	4.0
Memorial Type	altar
Status	lost
Current Repository	na
Primary Installation	na
Secondary Installation	na
Tomb Form	na
Liturgical Orientation	S
Documented Types	altare
Component Parts	mensa
Decorative Elements	Virgin Mary
Database ID	341

Dates

1510 to 1522
1622	renovation
1739 to 1742	destroyed

Individuals (3 total)

Capponi, Lucrezia di Gino di Neri di Gino di Neri (uxor Alamanno di Averardo Salviati)		circa 1510 (date is approximate) to 1522
Salviati, Alamanno di Averardo di Alamanno di M. Jacopo di Alamanno		circa 1510 (date is approximate) to 1522
Piero di Cosimo		by 1521

Groups (2 total)

Capponi		circa 1510 (date is approximate) to 1739
Salviati		circa 1510 (date is approximate) to 1739

Related Memorials (6 total)

S. Procolo 01.1a Altare Maggiore di San Procolo de Valori:	1622 to 1739
S. Procolo 03.1 Altare di S. Antonio de Pannocchia
S. Procolo 03.2 Altare della Nunziata de Ricciardi e Baldovini del Pannocchia:
S. Procolo 04.1 Altare de Villani	circa 1510 (date is approximate)
S. Procolo 04.3 Altare della Visitazione de Salviati:	1739
S. Procolo 05.2 Altare de Valori (1622)	1622 to 1739

Sources (3 total)

Catalogo generale dei Beni Culturali	rec. 0900228767
F. Bocchi and G. Cinelli, Le bellezze	pp. 388
ASF, Manoscritti, 624, Rosselli, Sepoltuario Fiorentino, 1657 (copy)	pp. 629, no. 4

Notes

[a] The descriptions of this altar by Stefano Rosselli and Giovanni Cinelli indicate that it was the first altar on the left as one entered the church from via Pandolfini. In the original configuration of the church, the altar would have been the closest to the high altar on the church's south side, opposite the lateral entrance to the building and to the right of the high altar when facing it. When the church was reoriented in 1622, the altar remained in its original position with its original altarpiece as noted by Rosselli and Cinelli.

According to the Catalogo generale, the altar was founded by Lucrezia Capponi between 1510 and 1522 in honor of the Visitation. She likely acquired what had been a Villani family altar as noted in the 1445 inventory of the church (CRS 78:386). Married to Alamanno di Averardo Salviati, Lucrezia ensured that both his and her family arms were displayed. A painting depicting the meeting of Mary and Elizabeth adorned their new altar, and it has been attributed to Piero di Cosimo (Cinelli), Domenico Ghirlandaio (Richa), and Raffaellino del Garbo (Berenson). When the church was again renovated in the early eighteenth century, the Salviati altar was moved to the center position on the north wall, where it was seen by Giuseppe Richa. Richa describes how the original painting of the Visitation was too small for its new home and so Gian Domenico Ferretti was commissioned to add a group of angels to fill the empty space (0900228767-1).

After the panel's removal from San Procolo in 1966 and subsequent restoration, the altarpiece was returned to the Salviati family. It was restored again in 2004 and then taken to the Villa Salviati in Migliarino Pisano (0900228767-0).