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BORGO SAN LORENZO (pieve di San Lorenzo) – The fresco is located at the top of one of the pillars of the right nave. Perhaps it is this position that has hindered a careful study of the work that appears to be of good quality. The pyramidal composition strongly influenced...

BORGO SAN LORENZO (pieve di San Lorenzo) – The stone baptismal font, of polygonal form, seems to date back to the work campaign executed during the sixteenth century by Damiano Manti da Imola

BORGO SAN LORENZO (pieve di San Lorenzo) – This work, of remarkable expressive quality, is the only known work (signed and dated) by the painter Cesare Veli, who executed it in 1591 on commission of the Cocchi family. The painting is clearly influenced by the late-mannerism...

BORGO SAN LORENZO (Pieve di San Lorenzo) – Placed significantly on the same pillar as the Madonna of Giotto, this centrally-shaped table, represents again the central panel of a dismembered polyptych, of which the side facades have been identified and kept in foreign...

BORGO SAN LORENZO (Pieve di San Lorenzo) – This canvas, with the archangel Michael dressed in a classical armor in the act of crushing Satan under his feet, is the work of the local painter Pietro Paolo Colli, who was active between the Eighteenth and the Nineteenth...

SCARPERIA (Propositura dei Santi Jacopo e Filippo) – A fragment of balustrade is placed in a room on the left wall of the church and manufactured with pieces coming from the one that delimited the presbytery, at least until the sixties of the twentieth century before its...

SCARPERIA (Propositura dei Santi Jacopo e Filippo) – The first altar on the left wall is a monumental example of a stone artifact, with two large columns and capitals supporting a rectangular architrave with the inscription “Oportebat pati Christum” (“It...

SCARPERIA (Propositura dei Santi Jacopo e Filippo) – Inside the chapel on the left side of the rostrum, there is an interesting tabernacle in marble, whose execution is attributed to Domenico Rosselli, a sculptor originally from Pistoia, active also in Florence and in the...

AUDIOGUIDA (Waiting for downloading…) SCARPERIA (Propositura dei Santi Jacopo e Filippo) – Proceeding along the left wall there is a second altar made of stone with similar architectural lines. On this altar there are two coats of arms of the Landi family. In fact,...