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Memorials

S. Remigio 01b Altar Maggiore

Alternate Names

  • High Altar
Rosselli Number 1.0
Memorial Type altar
Status lost
Current Repository na
Primary Installation na
Secondary Installation na
Tomb Form na
Liturgical Orientation E
Documented Types
  • altare
Component Parts
  • mensa
Database ID 597

Dates

circa 1267 (date is approximate) to circa 1292 (date is approximate) a
1717 b
renovation

Groups (1 total)

Bagnesi
circa 1267 (date is approximate) to 1717
c

Related Memorials (3 total)

S. Remigio 01a Cappella Maggiore de Bagnesi
circa 1267 (date is approximate) to 1717
S. Remigio 01c ciborio:
S. Remigio 03 Francesco Falconcini 1615:

Notes

  • [a] Work on the Gothic church of San Remigio began under prior Tebalduccio di Tedaldo, the first rector selected by the Bagnesi family after they acquired patronage rights to their parish church. It has been modified several times over the centuries.
  • [b] Prior Anton Giuseppe di Giovan Camillo Spinetti commissioned a new altar in 1717 with work by Domenico Buccioni.
  • [c] Though it is not known how the Bagnesi marked the high altar as under their patronage, Rosselli describes their coat of arms painted and sculpted in numerous places in the high altar chapel, which likely included decoration on the altar itself. The family went extinct when Senator Giuliano Bagnesi died in the early seventeenth century, but their coat of arms remains in a few places in the cappella maggiore and on the eastern nave piers.