Tombstone for Joseph Scotti

tombstone - Tuscan workshop (19th century)
TOMBSTONE,
Rectangular slab in white marble, with gray marble frame, and Latin inscription; in the upper area there is a graffiti of the scene of the mourning of relatives, a man, a young man and a woman, near the tomb of the deceased, against the background of a willow and cypresses

OBJECT
tombstone
MATERIAL AND TECHNIQUE
marble/engraving
CULTURAL FIELD
Tuscan workshop
LOCATION
Pistoia (PT)
HISTORICAL CRITICAL NEWS
The mourning scene draws on themes from the neo-classical funerary repertoire; the similar compositions graffitied on the Parentii, Lenzi, Pretrocchi and Monetti tombs, in the same cloister, between 1846 and 1853 are probably by the same author
CARD TYPE
Works/objects of art
NATIONAL CATALOG CODE
0900019855
COMPETENT BODY FOR PROTECTION
Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the metropolitan city of Florence and the provinces of Pistoia and Prato
FILING BODY
Superintendency for the artistic and historical heritage of the provinces of Florence, Pistoia and Prato
REGISTRATIONS
central and lower register - HSE/ IOSEPH SCOTTI/ DOMO MEDIOLANO/ ANTONII ET MARIAE ANNAE SONZINO F./ OMNIGENAE DOCTRINAE STUDIOSISSIMUS/ ET PARENTUM SUORUM CULTOR ET DELICIUM/ EXORTO ITALICO BELLO/ IN COR EQUESTRI LONG. ADSCITUS MILITAVIT/ INDUCIIS DATIS IURISPRUDENTIAE STUDIUM/ QUOD TICINI INCEPERAT/ IN ATHENAEO PISANO CUM LAUREA ABSOLVIT/ DUM AD SUOS IOCUNDISSIME REMEAT/ PISTORII INVIDIA MORTE INTERCIPITUR/ D. III. APR. MDCCCXLIX ANN XXI M XI of/ VIXIT PIUS MIS MIS BENIGNUS CHARUS OMNIBUS/ Ave very Ioseph/ Antonius Pater Fratres et Sorores/ Mature Exempla in Iuventa Admrati et Meliora Expecentes/ utte deus sieve Propitius Tibi/ Collagrymanman Precantur - Capital letters - Latin - Latin - Latin - Latin