Museo di Arte Sacra di Impruneta (Sacred Art Museum of Impruneta)

The museum is located in the top of the porch, built in the seventeenth century by Silvani, in the medieval basilica of Impruneta. The museum was created to protect the works of art in the sacristy of the basilica, commissioned for devotion to the miraculous image of Our Lady of Impruneta from various benefactors, including the Grand Duke of Tuscany, to this first group of objects are then added the codices, the objects found in the tomb of Bishop Antonio degli Agli (in the Shrine of Impruneta is his tomb of the late fifteenth century) and terracotta. 

Type of objects: sacred vestments, manuscripts, detached frescoes.

Important works: There has been codices of the fourteenth century, attributed to the Bolognese school, to Lippo di Benivieni and to the workshop of Pacino di Bonaguida; the cross astile attributed to Lorenzo Ghiberti; the marble bas-relief with the discovery of the Madonna image (15th century); the terracotta with the image of the Madonna and those on the ceilings; silverware made in the Grand-Ducal workshops of the seventeenth century; the shrine of St. Theodora of German or Austrian school (c. 1780).

Address: piazza Buondelmonti 28 Impruneta (Firenze) Tel: 055 2036408 E-mail: cultura@comune.impruneta.fi.it

Opening Hours: Saturday: 9,30-12,30, 14,30-18,30. Sunday: 9,30-13,00, 14,30-19,00.

Price: € 3.00; reduced € 2.00. 

Handicap access: NO

Exhibition area:

Exhibition halls: 5

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