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Cataletti mortuari Lucignano
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Current location: Museo Comunale di Lucignano
Original location: Chiesa della Misericordia o della SS. Annunziata
DESCRIPTIVE INFORMATION
Two splendid pairs of coffin heads, dating back to the 17th and 18th centuries respectively.
These funerary furnishings were once used by confraternities for display in the confraternity headquarters to which they belonged or in church. The bier with painted heads appears in the 15th century and appears to have been used primarily in the Siena area.
The first pair, dated 1626, comes from the Collegiate Church of San Michele Arcangelo, while the second pair comes from the Sanctuary of the Madonna della Querce, where confraternities that provided community services, including funeral services, were based.
The paintings of the first pair—the Coronation of the Virgin, the Visitation, Christ in Pietà Supported by Two Angels, and the Annunciation—have recently been identified as the work of Giovanni Antonio Cerretelli di Scrofiano (dated 1584–1628), a student of Francesco Vanni. The others, depicting Saint Charles Borromeo, Christ the Redeemer, and the patron saints of Lucignano: Saint Blaise and Saint Michael the Archangel, Saint Francis, and Saint Felix the Pope, are generally attributed to the Siena-Arezzo area.
The frames are made of fine and elaborate carving, with supports in the shape of lion's paws and sphinxes.
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