Offering a broad overview of memorialization practices across Europe and the Mediterranean, this book examines local customs through particular case studies. These essays explore complementary themes through the lens of commemorative art, including social status; personal and corporate identities; the intersections of mercantile, intellectual, and religious attitudes; upward (and downward) mobility; and the cross-cultural exchange.

• Contents 6
• Acknowledgments 8
• Illustrations 10
• Introduction 20
• Chapter One. Recycling for Eternity Th e Reuse of Ancient Sarcophagi by Pisan Merchants, 1200–1400 44
• Chapter Two. Nuremberg Merchants in Breslau (1440–1520) Commemoration as Assimilation 68
• Chapter Three. The Sepulchralization of Renaissance Florence 94
• Chapter Four. “Under the tombe that I have there prepared” Monuments for the Tailors and Merchant Tailors of Medieval London 126
• Chapter Five. Tombs and the imago doctoris in cathedra in Northern Italy, ca. 1300–1364 148
• Chapter Six. “Middle-Class” Men Who Would Be Nobles in Fifteenth-Century Castile, Flanders, and Burgundy 176
• Chapter Seven. Remembering the Dead, Planning for the Afterlife in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany The Case of Cione di Ravi 206
• Appendix. Testament of Cione di Ravi, Notarile Antecosimiano, 556, Filza F, 29 Giugno 1478 225
• Chapter Eight. Noble Aspirations Social Mobility and Commemoration in Two Seventeenth- Century Venetian Funerary Monuments 256
• Chapter Nine. Commemoration through Food Obits Celebrated by the Franciscan Nuns of Late Medieval Strasbourg 274
• Chapter Ten. The Panel Painting as a Choice for Family Commemoration The Case of Fifteenth-Century Patrons on Cyprus 290