Memorials

S. Romolo 04a Cappella de Cederni

Situated In

parrocchia di S. Romolo -- seconda chiesa -- left aisle (west side of church)

Alternate Names

3. Cappella e monumento della famiglia de Cederni

Rosselli Number	4.0
Memorial Type	chapel
Status	lost
Current Repository	na
Primary Installation	na
Secondary Installation	na
Tomb Form	na
Liturgical Orientation	N
Documented Types	cappella
Component Parts	chapel tomb mensa
Decorative Elements
Database ID	48

Dates

circa 1356 (date is approximate)
1439 a
circa 1440 (date is approximate) to spring 1449 b	decoration
1786	destroyed

Inscriptions (1 total)

2640

HOC • OP9 • FECIT • FIER • BARTOLOME9 • CEDERNI DE CEDERNIS

Bartolomeo di Cederno Cederni caused this work to be made

Individuals (5 total)

Cederni, Scolaio di Pietro	circa 1356 (date is approximate)	c
Cederni, Cederno di Bartolomeo di Giovanni di Neri di Cederno	1439
Cederni, Bartolomeo di Cederno di Bartolomeo di Giovanni di Neri	circa 1440 (date is approximate) to spring 1449
no surname used, Neri di Bicci di Lorenzo di Bicci	circa 1440 (date is approximate) to spring 1449
Cederni, Bartolomeo di Giovanni di Bartolomeo di Giovanni di Neri	1482

Groups (2 total)

Cederni		circa 1356 (date is approximate) to 1769
monaci della Badia Fiorentina		circa 1482 (date is approximate) to 1786	d

Related Memorials (5 total)

S. Romolo 04b tomb of Scolaio di Pietro Cederni:	circa 1356 (date is approximate) to 1786
S. Romolo 04c effigy tomb of rettore Neri Cedernelli:	October 14th, 1722 (day is uncertain) e
S. Romolo 05a Cappella de Guidacci f
S. Romolo 09.1 monumento:
S. Romolo 09.2 Stefano Gallaccini:

Sources (5 total)

ASF, Manoscritti, 628, Sepoltuari da Francesco della Foresta	fol. 22, no. 3
ASF, Manoscritti, 624, Rosselli, Sepoltuario Fiorentino, 1657 (copy)	pp. 643, no. 4
ASF, Notarile antecosimiano	vol. 383, fol. 26-27v
G. Richa, Notizie istoriche delle chiese fiorentine	vol. 2, pp. 40–41
S. Rosselli, Sepoltuario Fiorentino, autograph	pp. 729, no. 4

Notes

[a] Cederno Cederni left 30 gold florins in his will to decorate the family chapel, and another 30 for a painted altarpiece made "in optima forma." He required that the money be spent and the project completed within ten years of his death.
[b] Bartolomeo carried out his father's testamentary bequest to decorate the family chapel, including an altarpiece. As Maria Merlini indicates in her catalog entry on the panel, Bartolomeo's catasto declarations of 1447 and 1458 suggest that while it was not complete in 1447, the project had certainly been finished by 1458. The work's absence from Neri di Bicci's journal of projects, begun in 1452, confirms that Cederno's testamentary wishes were in fact honored.
[c] Giuseppe Richa notes that the chapel in San Romolo dated at least to the time of the tomb slab installed in honor of Scolaio di Pietro Cederni, whom he names as its patron.
[d] in 1482, Bartolomeo di Cederno Cederni named the Badia Fiorentina as his universal heir, which included patronage rights to the San Romolo chapel. See ASFi, Notarile antecosimiano, 383, fol. 26-27v.
[e] Baldovinetti notes that the slab was discovered on October 14th, 1722 and that it was moved to the church of San Romolo, but it is not clear whether that all occurred in one day or over several.
[f] According to Giuseppe Richa (vol. 2, pp. 40–41), the Guidacci chapel was the first on the right when entering the main door off of the Piazza della Signoria. Thus, it was oriented to the east, but liturgically on the south side. The Cedernelli chapel instead was in the left aisle, true west but liturgically north.