San Francesco (Volterra)
The church of San Francesco is an ancient church Volterra in the province of Pisa. The plain stone church was built in the 13th century for a community of Franciscan friars. The interior has marble monuments to members of the aristocratic family of Counts Guidi, who were patrons of the order. The monument to bishop Guidi (1588) was designed by Felice Palma. Among the paintings in the altars flanking the nave is a ''Concession'' (1585) by Giovanni Battista Naldini, a ''Nativity'' (1591) by Giovanni Balducci, a ''Crucifixion'' attributed to Bartolomeo Neroni, and a ''Crucifixion'' (1602) painted by Cosimo Daddi. The paintings of the The Circumcision (Signorelli), ''Circumcision of Christ'' (1490-91) by Luca SignorelliThe circumcision is now in The National Gallery of London. and the stunning masterpiece of the Deposition from the Cross, Volterra (Rosso Fiorentino), ''Deposition'' (1521) by Rosso Fiorentino are no longer here, the church for which they were painted; the former is i ...
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Volterra
Volterra (; Latin: ''Volaterrae'') is a walled mountaintop town in the Tuscany region of Italy. Its history dates from before the 8th century BC and it has substantial structures from the Etruscan, Roman, and Medieval periods. History Volterra, known to the ancient Etruscans as ''Velathri'' or ''Vlathri'' and to the Romans as ''Volaterrae'', is a town and ''comune'' in the Tuscany region of Italy. The town was a Bronze Age settlement of the Proto-Villanovan culture, and an important Etruscan center (''Velàthre'', ''Velathri'' or ''Felathri'' in Etruscan, ''Volaterrae'' in Latin language), one of the "twelve cities" of the Etruscan League. The site is believed to have been continuously inhabited as a city since at least the end of the 8th century BC. It became a municipium allied to Rome at the end of the 3rd century BC. The city was a bishop's residence in the 5th century, and its episcopal power was affirmed during the 12th century. With the decline of the episcopate and th ...
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