Greve in Chianti Culture

The Museo di San Francesco was inaugurated on 7 September 2002, in the complex of the former convent of San Francesco.

In its oratory is the polychrome terracotta altarpiece Compianto sul Cristo morto — the Lamentation over the Dead Christ — from the workshop of Baccio da Montelupo, which may still stand in its original place above the oratory altar, inside a glazed-terracotta frame of fruit and flower festoons made in 1515–1520 and attributed to the workshop of Benedetto and Santi Buglioni; a 14th-century marble bas-relief of Saint Francis from the church of San Pietro a Sillano; and a 14th-century Annunciation by an anonymous Florentine painter, which came from the church of Santa Croce in Greve. The sacristy holds antique textiles. Upstairs are two rooms: one with paintings by Jacopo Vignali and other 17th-century pictures, the other with church furnishings, goldsmith work, chalices, pyxes and monstrances.

The Museo del vino presents, across about eight hundred square metres, a collection of objects and images telling the history of viticulture at Greve. It was created by the Falorni brothers inside the old Greve cellars, the former cantine Mirafiori.

The town's arms were adopted after 1860. The figure in the upper part probably refers either to the Arte della Lana, the Florentine wool guild, whose emblem was the paschal lamb, or to the sheep-rearing of the area. The gold and blue below take the blazon of the Adimari of Florence, lords of the castle of Cintoia.

One piece of modern history belongs here too. From 1998 to 2008, Greve and the comune of Bagno a Ripoli hosted the InCHIANTI study, research into the causes of decline and loss of the ability to walk in older people. It followed 1,013 participants over nine years, and the town's name is attached to it in the medical literature.

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Checked against Wikipedia — The Museo di San Francesco at Greve in Chianti was inaugurated on 7 September 2002 in the complex of the former convent of San Francesco, and in the oratory are a polychrome terracotta representing the Deposition from the workshop of Baccio da Montelupo surrounded by a Robbian garland, a 15th-century marble bas-relief representing Saint Francis and a 14th-century Annunciation by an anonymous Florentine painter coming from the church of Santa Croce at Greve, with antique textiles in the sacristy and, on the upper floor, two rooms, one with paintings by Jacopo Vignali and other 17th-century pictures, the other with church furnishings, goldsmith work, chalices, pyxes and monstrances., In the oratory of the Museo di San Francesco at Greve in Chianti are a 14th-century marble bas-relief of San Francesco d'Assisi from the church of San Pietro a Sillano, a 14th-century Annunciation on panel by an anonymous Florentine painter from the church of Santa Croce at Greve, a Madonna with Child between saints Bartholomew and Francis of the late 15th century by Francesco Granacci from Santa Maria a Cintoia, and the polychrome terracotta altarpiece Compianto sul Cristo morto of the 16th century from the workshop of Baccio da Montelupo, which has perhaps kept its original location above the oratory altar and whose frame with festoons of fruit and flowers in glazed terracotta, made in 1515-1520, was inserted later and attributed to the workshop of Benedetto and Santi Buglioni., From November 2003 an Antiquarium was inaugurated in the Museo di San Francesco at Greve in Chianti, where Etruscan, Roman and medieval finds recovered in the territory are exhibited, including a small bronze bull protome, bronze coins, fragments of amphorae and jars, and loom and fishing weights., The wine museum at Greve in Chianti presents, over about eight hundred square metres, a collection of objects and images recounting the history of the viticulture of Greve, and is laid out by the Falorni brothers inside the old cellars of Greve, the former cantine Mirafiori., The figure in the upper part of the arms of Greve in Chianti, adopted after 1860, probably refers to the corporation of the Arte della Lana of Florence, which had the paschal lamb as its emblem, or to the sheep-rearing of the area; the gold and blue takes up the blazon of the Adimari of Florence, lords of the castle of Cintoia., From 1998 to 2008 there took place, at Greve in Chianti and in the Comune of Bagno a Ripoli, a study aimed at determining the causes of the diminution and loss of the capacity to walk in the elderly, the InCHIANTI study, which involved 1,013 participants over 9 years; and according to ISTAT data at 31 December 2009 the resident foreign population was 1,747 persons, the most represented nationalities being Albania with 404, Romania with 243 and Morocco with 150. (October 2026).