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Art imitates architecture: the Saint Philip reliquary in Renaissance Florence
Art Bulletin, The, Dec, 2004 by Sally J. Cornelison
22. Webb, 79-80.
23. See Giulia Brunetti and Luisa Becherucci, "Il dossale d'argento," in Becherucci and Brunetti, vol. 2, 5, 215-29. For both altars, see Pietro Toesca, Il trecento (Turin: Unione Tipografico Editrice Torinese, 1951), 902-5.
24. It is perhaps also significant that in 1206, only one year after Saint Philip's arm arrived in Florence, Bishop Giovanni da Velletri founded a church dedicated to Saint James, S. Jacopo in Campo Corbellini, in the Via Faenza, a church that may have had ties to Pistoia. Davidsohn (as in n. 9), vol. 1, 962; Richa (as in n. 9), vol. 3, 293. From 1256, S. Jacopo in Campo Corbellini was the commandery of the Knights of Malta. Walter Paatz and Elisabeth Paatz, Die Kirchen von Florenz (Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 1955), vol. 2, 400-410; and Geraldine A. Johnson, "Activating the Effigy: Donatello's Pecci Tomb in Siena Cathedral," Art Bulletin 77 (1995): 452-54.
25. For the celebration of the feast in the context of the Florentine Cathedral's calendar, see Tacconi, 43-44, 67.
26. Becherucci and Brunetti, vol. 2, 242.
27. Romolo Caggese, ed., Statuti della repubblica fiorentina, vol. 2, Statuto del Podesta 1325 (Florence: Stab. Tipigrafico E. Ariani, 1921), vol. 2, 1, 378-79 (bk. 5.20), 395 (5.48). See also Diane Finiello Zervas, ed., Orsanmichele a Firenze, 2 vols. (Modena: Franco Cosimo Panini, 1996), vol. 1, 53; and Bicchi and Ciandella, 113-14.
28. Webb, 124.
29. Mary Bergstein. The Sculpture of Nanni di Banco (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), 49-54, 125-31.
30. Biblioteca Marucelliana, Florence, Manoscritti, A. 199. 1, fol. 170v: "11 Maggio 1340. Forzerino d'argento nel quale si tiene il braccio di S. Filippo si rassetti per un buon maestro." A transcription of the same document from the Spoglie Strozziane is published in Vasari, 366, doc. 3. See also Becherucci and Brunetti, vol. 2, 11.
31. Archivio di Stato, Florence (hereafter ASF), Carte Strozziane, ser. I[I.sup.a], LL1, fol. 125r: "1422. Reliquiere si faccia per il braccio di S. Filippo." Published in Vasari, 368, doc. 25.
32. ASF, Carte Strozziane, ser, I[I.sup.a], LL1, fol. 15v: "1425. Antonio di Piero del Vagliente, orafo, fa una reliquiera d'argento dorato per il braccio di S. Filippo, nella quale si spende fior, 350, e si vende un forzerino d'argento dorato e smaltellato dove stava prima." Published in part in Cocchi, 50; and Vasari, 368, doc. 27. While a considerable amount, the 350 florins the Opera di S. Giovanni paid for the Saint Philip reliquary was not unprecedented, and it was just a fraction of what the organization disbursed between the end of the 14th century and the early 16th century in order to house its most important relics in honorable and impressive containers.
33. The goldsmith Bernardo Holzmann seems to have carried out all the restoration work of about 1720, and his name is certainly associated with the Saint Philip reliquary's restoration. See Cocchi, 48; Becherucci and Brunetti, vol. 2, 237, 243; L'oreficeria nella Firenze, 33-34.
