The Castellani chapel
Vanni Castellani, rich and powerful friend of the Albizzi family, provided in his testament for the decoration of his chapel dedicated to Saint Anthony abbot, later on called “Blessed Sacrament chapel”.The significant cycle of fresco paintings which adorns the walls, covered with quicklime during the 1700s and found again the next century, was probably finished within 1385.Agnolo Gaddi, together with some collaborators such as Gherardo Starnina, painted here the Stories of saints.In the Nineteenth century some funeral monuments dedicated to foreigners who lived in Florence were located inside the chapel such as the one of Mihail Skotnicki, work by Stefano Ricci who underlined the private aspect of pain in a loss of the beloved one.Around 1921 the chapel was restored by the architect Ezio Cerpi and the fresco paintings by Amedeo Benini.