This would be about 1290.

There was a certain fitness in Cimabue painting this Madonna, for it is said that he had his education in the convent which stood here before the present church was begun.

But I should add that of Cimabue we know practically nothing, and that most of Vasari's statements have been confuted, while the painter of the S.Maria Novella Madonna is held by some authorities to be Duccio of Siena.

So where are we?
The little chapel next the choir on the right is that of Filippo Strozzi the elder who was one of the witnesses of the Pazzi outrage in the Duomo in 1478.

This was the Filippo Strozzi who began the Strozzi palace in 1489, father of the Filippo Strozzi who married Lorenzo de' Medici's noble grand-daughter Clarice and came to a tragic end under Cosimo I.Old Filippo's tomb here was designed by Benedetto da Maiano, who made the famous Franciscan pulpit in S.Croce, and was Ghirlandaio's friend and the Strozzi palace's first architect.