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The Chiesa della Santissima Annunziata, also once called the Chiesa della Misericordia, is a

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church located in the town of

Lucignano Lucignano is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Arezzo in the Italian region Tuscany, located about southeast of Florence and about southwest of Arezzo. Lucignano borders the following municipalities: Foiano della Chiana, Marcian ...

, Province of Arezzo, region of

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, Italy. The church was built in 1468 as an oratory for the Company of the Battenti Neri, a fraternity of

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. That company was suppressed under the Granduke Leopold in the 1780s, and substituted by the ''Compagnia di Carità'', then by the present ''Venerabile Arciconfraternita di Misericordia'', whose coat of arms is on the portal. The unpolished stone facade is simple. The gilded main altar dates from 1583. Inside there are a number of works of art of the following two centuries, including a ''Nativity'' attributed to

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, and

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reliefs of the Annunciation by the studio of Andrea della Robbia. In addition there is an altarpiece depicting the ''Annunciation'' by

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, and the ''Glory of the Virgin'' by

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