The Pieve di San Giorgio is a
Romanesque-style,
Roman Catholic
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*Roman people, the people of ancient Rome
*'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lette ...
rural parish church, located in the Pieve di Brancoli sector outside of the city of
Lucca
Lucca ( , ) is a city and ''comune'' in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the Serchio River, in a fertile plain near the Ligurian Sea. The city has a population of about 89,000, while its province has a population of 383,957.
Lucca is known as one o ...
in
Tuscany
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, Italy.
History
A church at the site hosted a baptistry in 1097 under the name of San Giorgio a Brancoli, although that document alludes to its dependence on the pieve of Sesto from 772 to the mid-11th century. The interior still retains an altar and a font with Romanesque sculpture. In the apse is a 13th-century painted crucifix, and in the left nave is a fresco depicting an ''Annunciation'' attributed to
Giuliano di Simone. A terracotta relief depicting ''St George'' is attributed to the studio of Della Robbia.
Terra di Lucca e di Versilia
tourism website by the Province of Lucca, with their text derived from Sacrum Luce website.
References
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Romanesque architecture in Lucca
11th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy
Roman Catholic churches in Lucca