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Art imitates architecture: the Saint Philip reliquary in Renaissance Florence

Art Bulletin, The,  Dec, 2004  by Sally J. Cornelison

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65. Ulrich Middeldorf, "Zur Goldschmiedekunst der Toskanischen Fruhrenaissance," in Raccolta di scritti (Florence: Studio per Edizioni Scelte, 1979-80), vol. 1, 212-13; Giuseppe Marchini, Il tesoro del Duomo di Prato (Prato: Cassa di Risparmio e Depositi di Prato, 1963), 19-20; and Brunetti (as in n. 43), 23-24.

66. For the pulpit, see Janson (as in n. 51), 108-18; R. W. Lightbown, Donatello and Michelozzo (London: Harvey Miller, 1980), vol. 1, 230-55, esp. 245; and John Pope-Hennessy, Italian Renaissance Sculpture, 4th ed. (London: Phaidon, 1996), 352-53.

67. See Cynthia Hahn, "The Voices of the Saints: Speaking Reliquaries," Gesta 36 (1997): 20-31.

68. Most of them completely conceal the relics they contain, but some have small windows through which the sacred objects are visible. Hahn (as in n. 67), 26.

69. AOSMF, I.3.8, published as Mores et consuetudines ecclesiae florentinae, ed. Domenico Moreni (Florence: Petri Allegrini, 1794). Because it includes the feast of Saint Francis but does not mention the feast of the Corpus Domini, which was instituted in 1264, Lami (as in n. 2), vol. 3, 1654, dated this text to sometime between 1228 and 1264. See also Lorenzo Fabbri's entry for the Mores et consuetudines in I libri del Duomo di Firenze, ed. Fabbri and Marica Tacconi (Florence: Centro Di, 1997), 175-76; and Tacconi, 93-94.

70. Today these relics are housed in the St. Matthew Chapel in the cathedral's south tribune. Bicchi and Ciandella, 67.

71. For the text, see Moreni (as in n. 69), 46; reprinted in Cocchi, 52-53, and in Tacconi, 98-99. For an English translation of part of this text, see Franklin Toker, "On Holy Ground: Architecture and Liturgy in the Cathedral and in the Streets of Late-Medieval Florence," in Verdon and Innocenti, vol. 2, 547. See also Leoncini and Bicchi (as in n. 4), 313.

72. See Tacconi, 99.

73. See Richard C. Trexler, "Florentine Religious Experience: The Sacred Image," Studies in the Renaissance 19 (1972): 11; idem, 1980 (as in n. 1), chap. 10, "The Ritual of Crisis"; and Webb, 166.

74. Cronica di Matteo Villani, ed. Francesco Gherardi Dragomani (Florence: Sansoni, 1846), bk. 4, chap. 7. See also Trexler (as in n. 73), 13-14; and Becherucci and Brunetti, vol. 2, 8-11. According to Giovanni Battista Casotti's history of the Virgin of Impruneta, similar processions took place more than fifty times between 1354 and 1500; Casotti, Memorie istoriche della Miracolosa Immagine di Maria Vergine dell'Impruneta (Florence: Giuseppe Manni, 1714), vol. 1, 94-139. See also Bicchi and Ciandella, 42.

75. Alle bocche della piazza, 73, 95-96, 99, 141. See also Webb, 166.

76. Alle bocche della piazza, 99: "Domenica a di XVI si fe' la procisione generale per la citta di Firenze, messer lo veschovo cholla chericeria, cho' pieviali e / chon cotte indosso e cholla testa di santo Canobi e chol braccio di santo Filippo e cho[n] molte altre relique, e tutti religiosi cholle loro croci e loro relique, e'frati di Certosa cho[n] le loro relique i[n] gran quantita. E venne i[n] questo di i[n] Firenze la tavola di Santa Maria in Pianeta, e posesi i[n] su la piaca de' Signori, e quivi i[n] sulla ringhiera, fatto un grandissimo palcho dove stetono e' cherici, e' Signiori Priori e' loro Cholegi, e uno palcho dove stette messer lo veschovo a cantare la messa, e piu palchi piu alti, molti adorni, dove stette la moltitudine delle reliquie, che ogniuno di sulla piacca le potea vedere, e uno placho per gli orghani e pe'cantori. E predicho messer lo veschovo fra la messa."