Memorials

S. Spirito 9 Cappella della Palla a

Situated In

S. Spirito -- chiesa nuova -- right aisle

Alternate Names

Cappella dei Buonuomini di S. Martino
Cappella dei tre arcangeli
Palla-Buonomini Chapel
Ruggiero 33
TCI 7

Rosselli Number	9.0
Memorial Type	chapel
Status	partial
Current Repository	in situ
Primary Installation	na
Secondary Installation	na
Tomb Form	na
Liturgical Orientation	S
Documented Types	cappella
Component Parts	mensa b plaque c
Decorative Elements
Material	stucco light, malleable plaster made from dehydrated lime (calcium carbonate) mixed with powdered marble and glue and sometimes reinforced with hair. It sets more slowly than regular plaster and so is suitable for crafting sculpture and architectural decoration, external and internal. Differs from most other plasters which are made with calcium sulfate, rather than the calcium carbonate used in stucco, and set much more quickly Getty ID: 300014966
Database ID	469

Dates

May 7th, 1471 to October 2nd, 1471 d	decoration
1636 e
March 5th, 1696 to 1698 f	decoration

Inscriptions (2 total)

1928	D.O.M. ANN.DOM.MDCXXXVI QVESTA CAPPELLA GIÀ DELLA NOBIL FAMIGLIA DELLA PALLA OGGI È DELL' OꝐA DE' PROCVRATORI DE' POVERI VERGOGNIOSI DI S MARTINO DETTI BVONOMINI	To God, the Best and Greatest. In the year of our Lord 1636. This chapel formerly of the noble Della Palla family is today of the opera of the procurators of the shame-faced poor of San Martino called the Buonomini
1929	D.O.M. ORNATA CON LICENZA DE' BVONVOMINI DI S.MARTINO PADRONI DI QVESTA CAPPELLA PER ISTRVMENTO ROGATO M.ANTONIO CORSINI IL DI V MARZO MDCVC	To God, the Best and Greatest. Decorated with permission of the Buonuomini of San Martino through a contract drawn up by Messer Antonio Corsini on the fifth day of March 1695 (o.s.)

Individuals (1 total)

della Palla, Mariotto di Marco di Bernardo di Marco (speziale alla Palla)

July 5th, 1471 to October 2nd, 1471

Groups (4 total)

della Palla	August 13th, 1460 to 1636
della Palla	October 2nd, 1471 to present	g
Buonuomini di San Martino	1636 to 1866 h	i
Buonuomini di San Martino	1636 to present	j

Sources (3 total)

Catalogo generale dei Beni Culturali	rec. 0900440097
ASF, Manoscritti, 253, Priorista Mariani VI	fol. 1471v
ASF, Manoscritti, 624, Rosselli, Sepoltuario Fiorentino, 1657 (copy)	pp. 16

Notes

[a] Soon after the fire of March 1471, Mariotto della Palla commissioned Neri di Bicci to paint an altarpiece showing the archangel Raphael with Tobias, flanked by archangels Michael on the left and Gabriel on the right, as recorded in the painter's Libro di ricordanze on 7 May 1471. Though the position of the angels is reversed, scholars follow W. R. Valentiner in identifying the main panel from this altarpiece as the picture now in the Detroit Institute of Arts, its removal and separation of its predella made possible by the fact that the chapel passed to the Congregazione dei Buonuomini di San Martino in 1636. They received permission to redecorate the chapel, commemorated in a plaque dated 5 March 1695 (o.s.) and hired Giovanni Baratta to sculpt the large stucco relief of Tobias and the angel, echoing the earlier altarpiece. The della Palla family arms were included at the summit of the scene in a scrolled frame flanked by flower garlands, and the ensemble was completed by 1698.
[b] Neri di Bicci, Tobias and Three Archangels, 1471, tempera, oil (?), gold and silver on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 26.114
[c] two separate plaques
[d] Neri di Bicci creates and delivers altarpiece at request of Mariotto di Marco della Palla
[e] della Palla died out, perhaps in 16th century, taken over by charitable society of Buonomini
[f] relief showing Raphael and Tobias installed
[g] though most of their decoration has been lost or sold, their coat of arms was retained in the decoration installed by the Buonomini
[h] became perpetual possession City of Florence in mid 19th century
[i] plaque commemorates transfer from della Palla to San Martino
[j] two plaques identify their patronage