Francesco Tesori's tomb slab
Item
- Title
- Francesco Tesori's tomb slab
- Description
- The tomb slab, currently not on view in the Museum, used to be placed before the high altar in Santa Maria degli Innocenti before it was moved behind the altar during Fallani's renovations of 1786. It was made at the expenses of the Arte della Seta, who patronised the church, in 1498 - the year Prior Tesori died. The inscription reads: 'THESAURO TUMULUM FRANCI / ARS INCLITA SERUM / SUMPTIBUS HOC MERITO / GRATIA SUIS POSUIT // OMNIQ. VIRTUTE DECORATO / PRIORI HOSPITALIS HUIUS // VIX. AN. LIIII. DI. XV. MCCCCIIC.': it celebrates Tesori's lead in the artistic renaissance that took place in the Ospedale, and especially within the church interior, at the end of the fifteenth century. The marble appears worn out, but an unpublished eighteenth-century drawing records it in a more legible state.
- has type
- sculpture
- is documented in
- Bellosi, n. 12 pp. 227-28; Sepoltuario baldovinetti
- has former or current location
- Santa Maria degli Innocenti
- has former or current keeper
- Museo dell'Ospedale degli Innocenti
- beginning is qualified by
- 1498
- had participant
- Silk Weavers’ Guild
- carried out by
- Unknown Florentine artist from the 15th century
- Format
- marble
- 284 x 110 cm
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