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Museo della Collegiata
Outside of Florence
Tuscany
Italy
0571-76284
Type: Museum
Addmission Fee: Euro 2, conc. Euro 1
Hours: Tues-Sun, 9 am-noon, 4-7 pm
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The main sights sit around the quadrangular Piazza Farinata degli Uberti. Its all pretty laid-back, with the square’s caffès occupying the porches of some fine palazzos (Palazzo Ghibelline and Palazzo Pretorio the most interesting). They have great views onto the white and green marble slabs of the town’s main attraction, the Collegiata di Sant’Andrea (the sole example of the Florentine Romanesque style outside Florence). To its right, the Museo della Collegiata one of the oldest ecclesiastical collections in Tuscany, houses some of the best of its masterpieces.
A baptismal font by Bernardo Rossellino, a frescoed Pietà by Masolino, sculptures by Mino da Fiesole and Tino di Camaino and, in the pinacoteca upstairs, two triptychs by Lorenzo Monaco and a small Maestà by Fillipo Lippi – the main reasons to pop in. There are also a couple of panels by local artist Jacopo Carrucci (known as Il Pontormo, 1494-1556), but the best of him can really be seen in the Chiesa di San Michele in his birthplace Pontorme (a well-signposted bike ride away). There you can see a stunning Life of St John the Evangelist and Archangel Michael (around 1518). His house-museum, Casa Natale del Pontormo, is currently under restoration.
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