Santo Stefano a Pozzolatico is a

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church on Via di Riboia #3 in the neighborhood of Pozzolatico within the town limits of

Impruneta Impruneta is a town and ''comune'' of the Metropolitan City of Florence in the Italian region of Tuscany. The population is about 15,000. Name and production The name Impruneta is derived from ''inprunetis'' meaning "within the pine woods", and is ...

, but just north of the Autostrade del Sole circumvaling Florence, and in the province encompassed by the metropolitan city of Florence, region of

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, Italy.

History

A church at the site is mentioned by 11th and 12th centuries, and appeared to minister to Christian pilgrims. It was variably patronized by the church of Santa Maria all'Impruneta, then later by a number of prominent Florentine families, including the Ricci who added a dedication of the church to Saint Caterina de' Ricci. The bell-tower dates to the 14th century, but the present church building was rebuilt later in a

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

style. Among the works in the church is an altarpiece (first on left) of the ''Madonna and Child'' painted in the style of

Agnolo Gaddi Agnolo Gaddi (c.1350–1396) was an Italian painter. He was born and died in Florence, and was the son of the painter Taddeo Gaddi,who was himself the major pupil of the Florentine master Giotto. Agnolo was a painter and mosaicist, trained ...

; the second altar on right has a ''Madonna and Child with young St John the Baptist and Saints Cosimo and Damian'' (1632) by

Alessandro Allori Alessandro di Cristofano di Lorenzo del Bronzino Allori (Florence, 31 May 153522 September 1607) was an Italian painter of the late Mannerist Florentine school. Biography In 1540, after the death of his father, Allori was brought up and trai ...

. The second altar on the right houses a ''Madonna delle Grazie'' by Jacopo del Casentino.I dintorni di Firenze: Sulla sinistra dell'Arno I dintorni di Firenze: Sulla sinistra dell'Arno
by Guido Carocci, Florence (1907): page 276.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stefano Pozzolatico Churches in the metropolitan city of Florence 12th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy