Tomb of Riccardo Annibaldi (fragments)

Only fragments survive from the Annibaldi monument (now in the cloister of San Giovanni in Laterano, Rome). It was not, as previously supposed, erected for Riccardo Annibaldi (d 1276), the Cardinal Deacon of Sant’Angelo in Pescheria, but for his nephew of the same name, a notary and subdeacon who died in 1289. One distinctive feature of this monument, which recalls French Gothic tombs, is the funeral procession of clerics on the frieze at the rear of the death chamber. This scenic enrichment of the centre of the tomb surpasses even the ornamentation of the de Braye monument.