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Supports research on commemorating the dead in medieval and Renaissance Florence by aggregating physical, topographical, and socio-economic data extracted from hand-written sepoltuari (tomb registers) and other sources sepoltuario.iath.virginia.edu

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    Is it just us, or does Lorenzo Bartolini look a little like Ted Cruz? He was the last academy member to be buried in their chapel at Santissima Annunziata on January 20th, 1850. #history #Florence sepoltuario.iath.virginia.edu/individuals/...

    Portrait of the sculptor Lorenzo Bartolini by Ingres. Now in the Musée du Louvre, inv. RF 1942 24. https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010066397 He is dressed as a gentleman in a black long coat, black vest, and trousers. His white shirt is visible at the color and a little under his black cravat. He proudly puts his left hand on his hip, as he stands in three-quarter view in front of a table where he has placed his right hand in an authoritative gesture with thumb and forefinger spread wide, the knuckle of his finger bent to lie on the table. The table holds a portrait bust, books, and instruments suggesting Bartolini's learning and artistic skill.
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    The inscription on the banderoles woven through the bones is a paraphrase of Colossians 3:3: Mortui sumus et vita nostra abscondita est cum Christo in Deo. From "you" to "we" for the use of any member of the Accademia del disegno in #Florence who wished to use it. Chapel of St. Luke, SS. Annunziata

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    Oof! 17 days since the last post. Still going down #research rabbit holes, but the last few days have been focusing on the altarpiece and altar that once contained this beautiful thing! Lorenzo Monaco, The Prophet Isaiah, sold at Christie's Old Masters 1 May 2019. #ArtHistory #humanities

    Roundel from the pinnacle of an altarpiece by Lorenzo Monaco showing the Prophet Isaiah against a gold background. His halo is punched and incised into the gold leave. He wears a blue head and shoulder covering over a red robe. He points with his right index finger to a scroll that reads ECCE VIGO COCIP, the abbreviated Latin text of his statement in Is. 7:14 "Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son.” Isaiah is shown as an old man with grey hair and beard and he has a serious expression with pinched eyebrows, furrowed brow, and downturned month. Formidable!
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