San Giovanni Battista Decollato, Montemurlo

San Giovanni Battista Decollato (St John the Baptist Beheaded) is a renaissance-style, Roman Catholic rural parish church located in the borgo della Rocca of town of Montemurlo, province of Prato, region of Tuscany, Italy.

History

The pieve church has an unfinished brick facade with a 15th-century portico. A single nave with lateral altars is now lit by 18th-century windows. The church houses an altarpiece depicting the Madonna and Child with Saints (1522) by Francesco Granacci; as well as canvases by Giovanni Stradano, Matteo Rosselli, and Giacinto Fabbroni. The presbytery has a venerated silver crucifix from the 14th century. The crucifix's story is featured on the counterfacade in a fresco by Giovanni da Prato.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Province of Prato tourism site.

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