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church in
Pisa
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, region of
Tuscany
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Italy
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. It is located on the Lungarno Gambacorti.
History
The church is documented since the 9th century, but the apse area is from the 10th-11th century. Destroyed by a flood in 1115, it was rebuilt three years later.
The Count
Luigi Archinto, member of a prominent Milanese family, had moved to Pisa in the late 18th century, and in 1814, he had acquired the Agnello palace adjacent to this church. He then patronized and commissioned the reconstruction of the church, which by then was in poor conservation. He commissioned the works from the engineer Francesco Riccetti, who also restored the bell tower.
The interior layout is that of a single nave, refurbished with neoclassical decorations. It houses a panel with ''Madonna and Child'' (14th century).
The first altar on the right has canvas by
Domenico Passignano, depicting ''St Catherine Receiving the Stigmata'', and a 19th-century copy of
Enrico di Tedice's ''Crucifix'' (13th century). In this spot, with the earlier crucifix, was the one before which, in 1375,
St Catherine of Siena
Catherine of Siena ( Italian: ''Caterina da Siena''; 25 March 1347 – 29 April 1380), a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic, was a mystic, activist, and author who had a great influence on Italian literature and on the Catholic Church. ...
, kneeling in prayer, had received the stigmata. Catherine had been invited to Pisa to help pacify some of the civic strife.
[Pandolfo Titi,(1751), page 244.]
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Churches completed in 1117
12th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy
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Neoclassical architecture in Tuscany
Neoclassical church buildings in Italy