The Church of the Santuccio or Chiesa del Santuccio, is a small,

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-style,

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church located on Via Roma 69 in

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, Italy. The church was once was part of the adjacent monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli, occupied since 1362 by Augustinian nuns. The frescoed church is not part of the Polo Museale della Toscana, an association of museums of the Tuscan region.

History and description

The façade by Annibale Bichi, also the benefactor, recalls works by Baldassarre Peruzzi. Other patrons were the Santucci family, hence the name. The convent survived a series of suppressions starting in the 18th-century through the late 19th century. Nuns from other monasteries congregated here. In the early 20th century, the few remaining nuns moved out, and the adjacent convent is used as a professional school. The interior houses a major altarpiece, a ''Madonna and Child with Saints'', one of the last works of

Francesco Vanni Francesco Vanni (1563 – 26 October 1610) was an Italian painter, draughtsman, printmaker, publisher and printer active in Rome and his native city of Siena.

who died in 1610, continued by his half-brother,

Ventura Salimbeni Ventura di Archangelo Salimbeni (also later called Bevilacqua; 20 January 1568 – 1613) was an Italian Counter-Maniera painter and printmaker highly influenced by the ''vaghezza'' and sensual reform of Federico Barocci. Biography Salimbe ...

, who died in 1613, and only finally completed by

Sebastiano Folli Sebastiano Folli (1568–1621) was an Italians, Italian painter of the late Renaissance art, Renaissance period. He was a scholar of Alessandro Casolano, and a native of Siena. He distinguished himself by several frescoes in the churches at Siena ...

in 1614. The fresco decorations of the lateral walls were painted by

, and depict episodes in the ''Life of San Galgano'' (1614). St Galgano was a soldier who became an eremitic monk. The church once sheltered a silver reliquary, by Pace di Valentino, putatively containing relics of the saint; it is now in the diocesan museum of the Cathedral. The canvas depicting ''St Cecilia at the organ'' (early 1600s) is attributed to Antonio Buonfigli. The fresco with an ''Angelic concert'' (1613) was painted by Salimbeni. The organ from the church dates to 1531.Polo Museale.

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