Memorials

S. Procolo 05.2 Altare de Valori (1622) a

1662
1739	destroyed

1622 to 1739

S. Procolo 04.2 Altare della Visitazione de Capponi-Salviati:	1622 to 1739
S. Procolo 05.1 Altare di S. Niccolò de Valori (ca. 1332)	1622
S. Procolo 06 fresco de Covoni	1622 to 1739
S. Procolo 07 Francesco Valori 1498	1622 to 1739

pp. 629, no. 5

[a] After the reorientation of San Procolo in 1622, the Valori family, who had sponsored several altars in the original church, were given rights to an altar on the south wall, the second on the left when entering through the new church door off of via dei Giraldi. Stefano Rosselli describes it in this position and notes that an old altarpiece had been moved there from another family altar, believing it to have been the original high altar. This corresponds to a polyptych with a half-length Virgin and Child framed by pairs of half-length saints (Nicholas, John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, and Proculus) now attributed to Pacino di Bonaguida. The panels showing the Virgin and Child and the Baptist appear to be lost while the other three are in the Accademia (Inv. 1890, 8698-8699). A notation in the 1730 edition of Raffaello Borghini's description of the altarpiece, which he saw on the high altar before 1584, confirms Rosselli's description stating that the altarpiece had been moved to the Valori's "chapel" (alla cappella pure de'Valori a mezzo la medesima chiesa)." See Il riposo di Raffaello Borghini. Edited by Antommaria Biscioni. Firenze: Michele Nestenus e Francesco Moücke, 1730, p. 237.