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BORGO SAN LORENZO (pieve di San Lorenzo) – It is a shaped and painted cross, depicting the Crucified Christ. Probably deprived of the end sections of the arms, the work was granted to the Pieve by the Major Seminary of Florence, to be placed in the centre of the apse after...

BORGO SAN LORENZO (pieve di San Lorenzo) – The simple wall tabernacle is a typical example of an artwork dating back to a Florentine or Tuscan workshop of the first half of the sixteenth century, possibly due to the restoration works carried out by the rector of the Pieve...

BORGO SAN LORENZO (pieve di San Lorenzo) – The large altarpiece is the central panel of a polyptych whose sides have gone missing, or otherwise not yet identified, and probably destined for the larger altar of the pieve. The wooden board still has an elaborate shaping that...

BORGO SAN LORENZO (pieve di San Lorenzo) – Beautiful painting, once again the work of Jacopo Vignali, who signed it and dated 1648, really interesting for the complexity of the composition. The expressive power of the figures and the lively colours accentuate the dynamism...

BORGO SAN LORENZO (pieve di San Lorenzo) – The painting, attributed to the painter Piero di Cosimo and dating back to the very first years of the sixteenth century, depicts what is called a “sacred conversation”, in which the figures represented seem to assume a...

BORGO SAN LORENZO (pieve di San Lorenzo) – The eighteenth-century stone, originally located outside of the Dominican monastery of St. Catherine and housed within the parish, is essentially of documentary importance, recalling in a somewhat threatening manner the penalties...

BORGO SAN LORENZO (pieve di San Lorenzo) – The painting, framed in a decorative structure which is due to the sculptor Salvatore Cipolla, represents the remarkable and solemn figure of St. John the Baptist, realised by Galileo Chini. Purchased by the Cassa di Risparmio in...

BORGO SAN LORENZO (pieve di San Lorenzo) – The simple monument, as the inscription reads, marks the point of the burial of the director of the Pieve, Damiano Manti from Imola, priest and illustrious humanist who ruled the pieve for 40 years, from 1503 to 1543. He executed...

BORGO SAN LORENZO (pieve di San Lorenzo) – The large canvas, provided with its original frame, presents a scene subdivided into two parts: at the top, the Virgin with the Child is surrounded by a row of angels; at the bottom, a crowd of devotees, in the background, is...

BORGO SAN LORENZO (pieve di San Lorenzo) – The story of this polychrome terracotta bust and the similar but colour-free bust placed on the central portal lunette of the facade of the church have recently been revealed and are quite mysterious. In both cases it seems two...