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Museo di San Francesco, Greve in Chianti

Museo di San Francesco, Greve in Chianti historical timeline

Last updated on October 16, 2026

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7 September 2002. The Museo d'arte sacra di San Francesco was inaugurated in the complex of the former convent of San Francesco.

November 2003. The Antiquarium was inaugurated within the museum, exhibiting Etruscan, Roman and medieval finds recovered in the territory.

What the collection actually records is the emptying of the comune's churches. Every major piece has a provenance attached: the bas-relief from San Pietro a Sillano, the Annunciation from Santa Croce at Greve, the Granacci from Santa Maria a Cintoia, the panel from San Martino a Sezzate, the rock-crystal cross from Santo Stefano a Montefioralle, the reliquary of San Cassiano from the badia di Montescalari.

That is six churches and an abbey in one small museum, and it is the reason a comune this rural has a collection at all: the works were concentrated where they could be looked after.

The dates in the collection run from the 14th century to the 19th — from the Embriachi ivory and the Venetian cross to a Saint Rose attributed to Michele Gordigiani of the second half of the 1800s.

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Checked against Wikipedia — The Museo d'arte sacra di San Francesco at Greve in Chianti was inaugurated on 7 September 2002 in the complex of the former convent of San Francesco, and from November 2003 the Antiquarium was inaugurated in the museum, where Etruscan, Roman and medieval finds recovered in the territory are exhibited., In the oratory of the Museo di San Francesco at Greve are exhibited a marble bas-relief of San Francesco d'Assisi of the 14th century from the church of San Pietro a Sillano, an Annunciation of the 14th century in tempera on panel by an anonymous Florentine painter from the church of Santa Croce at Greve in Chianti, a Madonna with the Child Jesus between saints Bartholomew and Francis of Assisi of the end of the 15th century by Francesco Granacci from the church of Santa Maria a Cintoia, and a Madonna with Child between saints Anthony Abbot and Lucy of the first quarter of the 16th century by an anonymous Florentine painter from the church of San Martino a Sezzate., In the sacristy of the Museo di San Francesco at Greve, together with the sacred vestments, are conserved a reliquary Cross of the second half of the 14th century in rock crystal of Venetian workshop coming from the church of Santo Stefano a Montefioralle, and a San Silvestro papa benedicente of the 16th century in painted glass executed by the workshop of the Frati Gesuati, probably to a design by Francesco Granacci., On the first floor of the Museo di San Francesco at Greve are presented works and liturgical furnishing datable from the 16th to the 19th century, among them a Pace with Mary and Saint John the Evangelist mourning, lacking the Crucifix at the centre, in carved, painted and gilded ivory and inlaid wood of the 14th-15th century of the bottega degli Embriachi; a Madonna with Child of the 15th century in painted stucco attributed to Nanni di Bartolo; a thurible and an incense boat of 1611 in embossed brass; the reliquary of san Cassiano of the 17th century coming from the badia di Montescalari; an Assumption of the Virgin of the 17th century; a Madonna assunta between saints Lucy and Anthony of Padua of the first half of the 17th century by Francesco Curradi; and a Santa Rosa of the second half of the 19th century attributed to Michele Gordigiani. (October 2026).

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