The chapel of San Giacomo in the Basilica of Saint Anthony in Padua is generally assumed to be a funerary and commemorative chantry for Bonifacio Lupi, one of the founders, his family and heirs. A newly-found quittance document of 18 December 1375, issued some time after the death of the Venetian sculptor Andriolo de' Santi, sheds light on the closing chapter of this fourteenth-century sculptor's career and the motive for the chapel. It records that Andriolo's heirs, represented by his son Giovanni, had received all that was due to the master and agreed not to demand more on pain of 100 gold ducats, for the works contracted by Bonifacio Lupi in the chapel. The document also confirms that Andriolo lived near the Basilica and was survived by his wife Eufemia, a son Giovanni and a daughter Lucia. It also settles a long-standing debate over the burial wishes of the patron Bonifacio Lupi. At this stage, Lupi had conceived of setting up only one tomb in the chapel; not for himself, but for his relatives on his mother's side, the Rossi family.
