Antiquarium of Sant’Appiano


This is a small archaeological museum located in rooms adjoining the Pieve di Sant'Appiano (just a few kilometres from Barberino Val d'Elsa). It houses some of the considerable amount of material found on digs in the surrounding area.
In the first of the two rooms making up the Antiquarium, there are some alabaster funerary urns from the Hellenistic period, with effigies of the dead carved on the covers and bas-reliefs depicting Greek mythological scenes. Two smaller containers, one of which has a depiction of a knight wrapped in a shroud about to enter the netherworld are inside a case together with red-figure Attic ceramics that date back to the period between the 6th and 5th century BC.
The cabinets in the second room contain Late Middle Age and Renaissance ceramics typical of the Florence area, some Etruscan memorial pillars and a small pagan idol in sandstone depicting the god Eros astride an animal, which was found during the demolition of the baptistery.



Parish Church of Sant’Appiano


The interior of the parish church has two different versions of the Romanesque: an Early Romanesque version dating to the founding of the building and a later version in the same style; this can be seen in the right aisle, which was destroyed and rebuilt between the 12th and the 13th century. On the walls there are a series of frescoes by the Florentine School from the end of the 15th century (in the left aisle) and 16th-century frescoes on the vault at the base of the bell tower and in the Cappella del SS. Sacramento.



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Le istituzioni museali che fanno parte di “Chianti Musei” racchiudono alcune fra le più interessanti raccolte d’arte della provincia di Firenze, un patrimonio di opere pittoriche, scultoree e di oreficeria che fino a pochi anni fa era custodito nelle pievi, nelle chiese e nei conventi di questa parte della Toscana. Si tratta di un piccolo museo archeologico, l’Antiquarium di Sant’Appiano a Barberino Val d’Elsa (con interessanti pezzi etruschi e romani), e di quattro musei di arte sacra (afferenti ai comuni di Greve in Chianti, Tavarnelle Val di Pesa, San Casciano Val di Pesa e Impruneta), che ospitano ricche raccolte di dipinti, sculture, argenterie e paramenti liturgici datati fra il XIII e il XIX secolo. Fra i nomi degli importanti artisti toscani rappresentati vi sono quelli di Meliore, Coppo di Marcovaldo, Ambrogio Lorenzetti e Lorenzo Ghiberti">
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Antiquarium of Sant'Appiano


Winter timetable
from 1 November to 31 March
Open on Booking

Summer timetable:
from 1 April al 31 October

Sab-Dom 16-18

Info:
055 8256381



Parish Church of Sant’Appiano


Opening Hours:Sat-Sun 4-8pm

Tel: 055 8052231 / 055 8075622