Pieve delle Sante Flora e Lucilla, Former pieve and parish church in Santa Fiora, Italy.
Pieve delle Sante Flora e Lucilla is a church in Santa Fiora with a gabled stone facade divided by a horizontal cornice. It has a Renaissance portal, a Gothic oculus window, and the Aldobrandeschi coat of arms below the oculus. The interior has three naves separated by round arches and a quadrangular choir.
The church is first documented in 1142, though an English source gives 1144. It was restored in the mid-15th century and transformed at the end of the 18th century, when its present appearance took shape.
The name honors Saints Flora and Lucilla, two sisters venerated since medieval times. The interior displays how Renaissance artisans in this region transformed religious narratives into terracotta to teach and move worshippers.
The church stands in the centre of Santa Fiora, in the Province of Grosseto. Visitors enter through the stone portal beneath the Romanesque window; inside, the three naves are separated by round arches and end in a quadrangular choir. The terracotta works are best examined up close, panel by panel.
The church holds a collection of glazed terracotta by Andrea della Robbia made between 1465 and 1490, including a large altarpiece of the Madonna della Cintola with saints, a Coronation of the Virgin triptych, the Stigmata of Saint Francis, a Saint Jerome with garlands of leaves, fruit and flowers, pulpit panels and a Crucifix.
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