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 the reorganization of the presbytery area following the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council. The work takes on a common typology very dear to the Florentine painter Lorenzo Monaco, so named for his membership of the Camaldolesi Order and main protagonist of the so-called “School of Angels”.…
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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 Damiano Manti from Imola, which directer the pieve from 1503 to 1543.© Il Filo – Idee e Notizie dal Mugello
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 represents the remains of the original which must have richly adorned the polyptych, even with a complex gilded decoration, still visible on the base and on the upper arch. The gothic-style shaped elongated table represents the Madonna sitting on a throne draped with a richly woven fabric, holding a small bird in her…
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 of the scene and the sense of agitation pervading the characters, invested by the flames of the Holy Spirit. Even in this case, the intense pathos of the figures and the clarity of the iconography refer to the Counter-Reform which required figurative arts to serve the spread of the faith and the subsequent education of the…
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 “talkative” attitude among themselves. The monumental setting of the figures, the basic and accurate design, the color range the painted used, as well as the sensible representation of the landscape, recall an archaic and neo-fifteenth-century tendency taken by the artist right at the beginning of the sixteenth century, perhaps because of the influence of the…
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 to which anyone was subjected in case he had contributed to disturb the peace of the Dominican nuns or failed to respect their cloistral life© Il Filo – Idee e Notizie dal Mugello
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 Florence, the painting was then granted to the pieve in Borgo San Lorenzo. This work, belonging to the later stage of the Chini production, is characterized by the strong plasticity of the figure of the saint, strongly defined by fast and contrasting brush strokes, which tend to accentuate the dramatic effect. This canvas, along with…
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 important restoration works which saved the church from destruction and cooperated to the foundation of the nearby Dominican monastery of Santa Catherine (1516).© Il Filo – Idee e Notizie dal Mugello
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 accompanied by three Saints who, kneeling in front of an altar from which – amongst other things – hangs the rosary, are imploring the Virgin. These are San Carlo Borromeo, San Domenico and Santa Catherine of Siena together with two figures, probably the clients of the work. The work, provided with…
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 copies were made in different periods from an original, recently recognized in a private collection, but coming from the pieve in Borgo, executed no less than by the great Donatello. According to the reconstruction of the facts made by a well-known scholar (Prof. Francesco Caglioti), the original Donatello piece, crafted for the church…
