Sant'Agostino, 14th-century church in Monte San Savino, Italy.
Sant'Agostino is a church in Monte San Savino with a Gothic Umbrian-style facade. Its wooden door is framed by twisted colonnettes forming a pointed arch, above which is a 1524 stained-glass window by Guillaume de Marcillat's workshop showing Saint Augustine enthroned with two angels. The interior has a single nave with 18th-century stucco side altars and a loggia atrium by Andrea Sansovino.
Augustinian friars settled on the Colle di Castiglia at the end of the 13th century and began the church in the early 14th century; it was damaged in the 1325 siege by Guido Tarlati, bishop of Arezzo, and rebuilt in 1327 under the title of Saints Jacopo and Cristoforo. Agostino Tinacci, a friar from Monte San Savino and bishop of Narni, saw it completed between 1343 and 1346. In 1576 increased revenues allowed the friars to enlarge it to monumental size, and in 1700 a new presbytery, a raised roof and six Baroque stucco side altars gave it its present form.
The interior displays works from Tuscan artists that show religious subjects and connections to local life and patronage. These paintings shape the appearance of the space and tell the story of the artists who worked here.
The building is accessible from the outside, but it may be closed during prayers and services throughout the day. Plan your visit outside of religious ceremony times to view the interior without interruption.
The bell tower once stood at the rear of the building, as shown by a fresco by the Savinese artist Ulisse Giocchi in the room of silence; it was moved to the side of the church in 1830. The church's title of Sant'Agostino has no documented date of transfer.
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