San Pietro is a Roman Catholic pieve or rural parish church located on Piazza of the same name in the neighborhood of Seano, near the town of

Carmignano Carmignano is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the province of Prato, part of the Italian region Tuscany. It is located about west of Florence and about southwest of Prato. It is the centre of the wine region of the same name. Geography C ...

, province of Prato, region of Tuscany, Italy.

History

The church is documente in 998 by

Emperor Ottone III Otto III (June/July 980 – 23 January 1002) was Holy Roman Emperor from 996 until his death in 1002. A member of the Ottonian dynasty, Otto III was the only son of the Emperor Otto II and his wife Theophanu. Otto III was crowned as King of ...

, other documents cite a church in this region during 1179 and 1218 as a parish dependent of the pieve of Carmignano. In 1447–1518, it became property of the abbey of Monteoliveto in

Pistoia Pistoia (, is a city and ''comune'' in the Italian region of Tuscany, the capital of a province of the same name, located about west and north of Florence and is crossed by the Ombrone Pistoiese, a tributary of the River Arno. It is a typi ...

. The church became independent of the abbey, when the latter was suppressed in 1782. The church has a Neo-Romanesque façade and portal dating to 1928. The bell-tower dates to the 19th century. The interior was decorated around 1836 with statues of the apostles by

Bartolomeo Valiani Bartolomeo Valiani (Pistoia, 12 March 1793 - Pistoia, 1842) was an Italian painter. Biography He was born in Pistoia, but active many years in Bologna, where he initially traveled to train first with his uncle, Giuseppe Valiani, then to study in ...

. The altar has a 15th-century crucifix, attributed to the style of

Francesco di Valdambrino Francesco di Valdambrino (circa 1375 – 1435) was an Italian sculptor in wood, active in Tuscany. He was born near Siena. He was one of the contestants for the commission to decorate the doors of the Baptistery of Florence. He was a colleague o ...

. The church also has a number of works by

Giuseppe Santelli Giuseppe Santelli (Signa, January 20, 1880 – Signa, March 9, 1956) was an Italian painter. References *Arnolfo Santelli, Un artista gentiluomo - Vita e viatico di Giuseppe Santelli, Edito dalla Società Leonardo da Vinci di Firenze. *Marco Mor ...

. The adjacent Oratory of the ''Company of the Body of Christ'' has a main altarpiece depicting the ''Assumption of Mary with Sts Peter Macario and Roch'' by Domenico Frilli Croci, a 16th-century painter.Comune of Carmignano
entry on church.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pietro Seano Churches in Carmignano Roman Catholic churches in Tuscany Romanesque Revival church buildings in Italy