Tourism and tourist places in Buonconvento

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The Holy Art Museum of the valley of Arbia in Buonconvento

The Holy Art Museum of the valley of Arbia is hosted in the rooms of the Ricci Palace, showing this latter a finely decoration with the typical floreal patterns of the Liberty style.

The Holy Art Museum of the valley of Arbia collects numerous art works coming from the churches in the territory, being divided into three sections related to three different historical periods.

The first section is dedicated to paintings made from the XIV-th to the XV-th century by artists from Siena. Among the numerous paintings it is possible to admire an "Annunciation" by Andrea di Bartolo (1419-1457), an "Our Lady withn the Child" by Duccio di Buoninsegna (1255-1319), an "Our Lady's Crowning", an "Our Lady with the Child" by Sano di Pietro (1406-1481), an "Our Lady with the Child" by Pietro Lorenzetti (1280-1348) and an "Our Lady with two Angels" by Luca di Tommè (1330-1390).

The second section hosts paintings made from the XV-th to the XVI-th century by artists from Siena like the fine plates painted by Bartolomeo di David, portraying the "Immaculate Conception, Saints Prophets and Angels" and those ones by Pietro di Domenico portraying the "Our Lady's Assumption", a painting by Matteo di Giovanni (1430-1495) portraying an "Our Lady with the Child and Angels" and another one by Benvenuto di Giovanni (1436-1518) portraying an "Annunciation and Saints". The section also collects some valuable goldsmithery objects like a small boat probably built according to a design of Pietro Lorenzetti (1280-1348).

The last section of the Holy Art Museum of the valley of Arbia saves some fine seventeenth-century paintings like an "Our Lady with the Child on the Throne and Saints" by Francesco Bartalini, a "Circumcision" by Giovan Paolo Pisani, an "Immaculate Conception and Saints" and "Crowned Christ with Thorns" both painted by Rutilio Manetti (1571-1639), the "Rosary's Misteries" by Stefano Volpi and a tabernacle portraying a "Pity" painted by Ventura Salimbeni (1567-1613).