Da un inventario ottocentesco di Santa Croce: Bartolomeo Bulgarini per Arcetri, Giovanni del Biondo per le Campora

The article is based on the analysis of a list of works of art in the sacristy and the Novitiate Chapel in Santa Croce in Florence, drawn up between 1846 and 1855 and housed in the Archive of the Opera di Santa Croce. The list contains valuable but hitherto mostly overlooked annotations regarding the provenance of paintings which arrived after the Napoleonic suppressions. This information, cross-referenced with data from the original sites and documents in the Archive of the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, makes it possible to reconstruct the fourteenth-century appearance of at least two important spaces of Florentine devotion: the Poor Clares’ church of San Matteo in Arcetri, whose altar was adorned with the polyptych by Bartolomeo Bulgarini damaged in the 1966 flood (now under restoration); and the chapel of Sant’Antonio alle Campora, the only remnant of the Hierosolymitan site of Santa Maria al Sepolcro, which contained Giovanni del Biondo’s polyptych of 1372.