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Memorials

S. Ambrogio 01 Cappella Maggiore

Situated In

S. Ambrogio -- chiesa -- presbiterio

Alternate Names

  • Altar Maggiore
Rosselli Number 1.0
Memorial Type chapel
Status extant
Current Repository in situ
Primary Installation na
Secondary Installation na
Tomb Form na
Liturgical Orientation E
Documented Types
  • cappella
Component Parts
  • mensa
  • plaque a
Decorative Elements
Material
  • macigno
Database ID 388

Dates

1313 b
1441 c
renovation
1716 d
renovation

Inscriptions (1 total)

1844 + Questa Cappella fece fare Turino Baldesi per l'anima sua e di Gianotto suo fratello a reverenza del Corpo di Cristo Jesù MCCCXIII Turino Baldesi had this chapel made for his soul, and that of Gianotto his brother, in reverence of the Body of Christ Jesus in 1313

Individuals (3 total)

Baldesi, Giannotto di Baldese
1313
Baldesi, Turino di Baldese
1313
Maringhi, Francesco di Antonio (procuratore di Sant’Ambrogio)
1441

Groups (1 total)

Baldesi
1313 to 1716

Related Memorials (2 total)

S. Ambrogio 02a.2 Cappella del Miracolo:
1480 to present
S. Ambrogio 03 pala d'altare di Fra Filippo Lippi:
1447 to circa 1585 (date is approximate)

Sources (4 total)

ASF, Manoscritti, 626, Biscioni Sepoltuari con Arme fol. 144v
ASF, Manoscritti, 624, Rosselli, Sepoltuario Fiorentino, 1657 (copy) pp. 470, no. 1
S. Rosselli, Sepoltuario Fiorentino, autograph pp. 533, no. 1
D. Francioni, Storia del santissimo miracolo pp. 220-221

Notes

  • [a] Stefano Rosselli indicates a fourteenth-century inscription under the Baldesi family arms carved in the left pier of the chapel, but is unclear about whether it was on a plaque or shared a marker with the arms, or was in fact under the altar itself.
  • [b] The literature offers two dates of installation. Stefano Rosselli indicates an inscription carrying the date 1313, while his copyist and other sources provide 1342. The first patron seems to have been Turino Baldesi, as indicated in the now-lost inscription
  • [c] The prior Francesco Maringhi updated the high altar chapel with a bequest in 1441 that included the commission to Fra Filippo Lippi for a new altarpiece showing the Coronation of the Virgin, now in the Uffizi. While the Maringhi arms were displayed on the altarpiece, the Baldesi arms remained in place.
  • [d] As happened with many Florentine churches, Sant'Ambrogio saw a complete overhaul in the early eighteenth century by Giovanni Battista Foggini.