- San Francesco (Pisa)
San Francesco de' Ferri is a church in
Pisa ,Tuscany ,Italy .Mentioned for the first time in a document from
1233 , the church was rebuilt starting from1261 by will of archbishopFederico Visconti . The church was under the patronage of the Pisane noble families, who owned a series of private chapels for their burials; theFranciscan were limited to the administration of the cult. The works, directed byGiovanni di Simone , ended in1270 and included also the slender bell tower.The marble façade is from 1603. The interior was revamped in the same age, with paintings by
Jacopo da Empoli ,Passignano andSanti di Tito . In the transept are frescoes byTaddeo Gaddi (1342-1345),Galileo Chini (20th century) and an altar frontal by Tommaso Pisano (late 14th century).The sacristy has frescoes by
Taddeo di Bartolo (1397) with "Histories of Mary", while the Capitolium Hall has frescoes byNiccolò di Pietro Gerini with "Histories of the life of Christ" (1392). The rectangular cloister is from the 14th century.After a period as military barracks, the church was declared national monument in 1893.
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