SCARPERIA (Propositura dei Santi Jacopo e Filippo) – In the chapel on the left there is an impressive wooden crucifix, depicted with extraordinary and elegant lines and features: characterized by lively and molded plastic, it is generally attributed to Jacopo Sansovino’s youth activity. The sculptor and architect from Florence was a student of Andrea Contucci, known as Sansovino, from whom, moreover, he took the pseudonym. Being mainly active between Florence and Rome, Jacopo then moved definitively to Venice in 1527. The Crucifix of Scarperia is remarkable for its quality of execution and can be referred to the end of the…
Author: RedFilo Cultura
AUDIOGUIDE (waiting for loading…)GREZZANO – Casa d’Erci is located in the centre of Mugello Valley, 30 km north from Florence. Detailed sign posts lead the visitor from the village of Borgo San Lorenzo to Grezzano (5 km), then on to an unpaved road (2 km) at the end of which you find the museum. The choice of an old share-cropper house has the function of introducing the visitor to the Tuscan peasant landscape and life, which has now completely disappeared. A collection of objects and papers having belonged to the peasants and landowners of Luco and Grezzano is arranged in…
