La più antica decorazione della sagrestia-capitolo di Santa Croce

The sacristy of the church of Santa Croce is the oldest monumental sacristy in Florence. It started a typology destined to have important consequence during the fourteenth and fifteenth century. Before the construction of the Pazzi Chapel by Brunelleschi, the sacristy was used as the chapterhouse as a document dated 1366 seems to suggest. This original function could guarantee the authority and the fortune of this model. Neglected by scholars, its first decoration campaign was composed with Saints in niches and fictive marble patterns, clearly inspired by the sacristy's frescoes of the lower church in San Francesco in Assisi, painted by the Master of Figline. The gothic aspects and decorative solution of the frescoes suggest ascribing them to Jacopo del Casentino. His works were later partially modified when Guidalotti chapel was erected and Taddeo Gaddi painted his Crucifixion with Saints on the south wall.