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Church of Sant'Agostino

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Location

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Whats to see

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Introduction

Southeast of the National Gallery, in the Prato Sant'Agostino, is the gothic Church of Sant'Agostino. Inside this monumental church are very valuable art works, including frescoes by Amborgio Lorenzetti and Francesco di Giorgio Martini, and one of the oldest organs in the city.

History

The Church of Sant'Agostino Church was built over a 200-year period from the year 1258 onwards, originally belonging to an Augustinian house. It has undergone a number of modifications since, altered at the end of the 15th century and again in 1755. The most important of which was carried out by the architect Luigi Vanvitelli in 1755 after the building was devastated by fire.

Location

Address: Via San Pietro, Siena 53100 Italy.

Whats to see

The entrance to the church is from the hall of the Collegio Tolomei. The single nave interior gives an extraordinary impression of light and space, as well as containing a number of important works of art. The second altar to the right contains a Crucifixion and Saints by Perugino (1506). A small doorway leads from here into the Piccolomini Chapel, which contains a Madonna and Child With Angels and Saints fresco by Ambrogio Lorenzetti. Above the altar of the same church is a large canvas of The Epiphany (1485), one of Sodoma's finest works, alongside a 1482 Slaughter of the Innocents by Matteo di Giovanni and a particularly fine polyptych by Simone Martini depicting Beato Agostino Novello and Four of His Miracles.

Among the other works worthy of note in the church is a wooden Madonna and Child, probably of the Senese School; The Temptations of St Anthony by Rutilio Manetti and a Baptism of Constantine by Francesco Vanni.

The second chapel to the right of the presbytery contains two recently discovered frescoes that have been attributed to Francesco di Giorgio, depicting the Nativity of Mary and the Nativity of Jesus.

Useful information

Telephone: +39 0577/907012
Open: Nov.-Mar., daily 7-noon and 3-6.
Apr.-Oct., daily 7-noon and 3-7.

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