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  • A recent exhibition at the Collegiata di San Lorenzo, located in a church on Piazza Varchi that is considered to be one of the best examples of Tuscan baroque, reflected on the work of Massimiliano Soldani Benzi, a Montevarchi sculptor whose fame as a Baroque artist reached Rome in the 18th century, and whose works adorned the facades of Florence.

    Tuscany Joel Weickgenant 2010

  • Adjacent to the Collegiata, the Museo d ' Arte Sacre ' s holdings include works by the Della Robbias, while the new Cassero Per La Scultura sculpture museum, which opened in May in a tower of the original city wall, now at the head of Via Trieste, displays three floors of work by contemporary Italian sculptors, including Pietro Guerri and Timo Bortolotti.

    Tuscany Joel Weickgenant 2010

  • Painted the altar-piece of the Collegiata, Foiano.

    Luca Signorelli Maud Cruttwell

  • Collegiata of the same town, a S. Rock in the Gallery, and a fresco of

    Luca Signorelli Maud Cruttwell

  • This grandeur was, however, fully regained in the last work of the master, painted in 1523, the very year of his death -- "The Coronation of the Virgin," in the Collegiata of Foiano, a small town near Sinalunga.

    Luca Signorelli Maud Cruttwell

  • Collegiata, where you may find much that is merely old or curious.

    Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922

  • Collegiata di S. Andrea in the lovely Piazza Farinata degli Uberti, that most of the works have been gathered in some of the rooms of the old college.

    Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922

  • Collegiata church; the poor young saint, on her low bed, in a state of ecstatic vision (the angelic apparition is given), acconpanied by a few figures and accessories of the most beautiful and touching truth.

    Italian Hours Henry James 1879

  • Here in the Bargello some fragments of beautiful things have been gathered -- a tabernacle with two adoring angels, a little S.. John made in 1477 for the Opera, a relief of the Adoration of the S.epherds, another of Madonna in an almond-shaped glory of cherubim, and, last of all, the splendid busts of Matteo Palmieri and Francesco S.ssetti; but his masterpiece in pure sculpture is the S. S.bastian in the Collegiata at Empoli, a fair and youthful figure without the affectation and languor that were so soon to fall upon him.

    Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922

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