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Museo di San Donato - Collezione di Banca MPS
53100 Siena, via Montanini
Website: https://www.mpsart.it/luoghi-e-opere/collezioni/museo-san-donato/Pagine/default.aspx
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Along the northern side of the Salimbeni family's possessions was the ancient church of San Donato, founded over a century after the family's fortified residence. The church originally appeared as a single-nave building with an apse termination.
The transformation into a museum space and conference room for particular events has brought to light what remains of the ancient construction: the stones with which the perimeter walls are made and the very small dimensions of the building are in fact a clear attestation of the Romanesque origin of the church, rebuilt as early as 1236.
The church remained a place of worship until the early 19th century when, following the Napoleonic suppressions, it was transformed into a depot for carriages; only in 1925, which became Monte Paschi property, was it recovered and destined for the bank's archive. The access from Via Montanini was closed against a monumental fountain built by the sculptor Fulvio Corsini.
Only in the seventies was the transformation of the former church into a conference room and art gallery decided, an intervention carried out by the architect Pierluigi Spadolini.
In 2011 a new exhibition path was set up based on chronological criteria, in order to offer guests an organic vision of Sienese art.
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Beato Giacomo da Bevagna
BENEDETTO DI BINDO
Compianto sul Cristo morto coi Santi Francesco, Antonio da Padova
(1481)
Elia risuscita il bambino della vedova
RUTILIO MANETTI (XVII secolo)
I Santi Antonio abate e Giacomo maggiore
PRIAMO DELLA QUERCIA
Il Beato Ambrogio Sansedoni davanti al Papa
FRANCESCO VANNI
Lamentazione sul Cristo deposto con San Sinibaldo
MAESTRO DELL'OSSERVANZA
Madonna col Bambino
BENVENUTO DI GIOVANNI (1475)
Madonna col Bambino e i Santi Caterina d'Alessandria e Giovanni Battista
TINO DI CAMAINO
Madonna col Bambino in trono tra i Santi Paolo, Lucia, Caterina d'Alessandria e Pietro; i Santi Cristoforo e Antonio abate
MAESTRO DI PANZANO
Madonna dei vetturini
GIOVANNI DI PAOLO
Predella di Madonna col Bambino che appare ai confratelli sopra la chiesa
MARTINO DI BARTOLOMEO
Sacra Famiglia con San Giovannino
MARCO PINO (XVI secolo)
San Domenico
BENEDETTO DI BINDO
San Francesco
DOMENICO DI NICCOLò DEI CORI
San Giovanni Evangelista
ANDREA DI BARTOLO
San Marco Evangelista
ANDREA DI BARTOLO (Fine del Quattrocento)
Sant'Agostino in meditazione
FRANCESCO VANNI (XVI secolo)
Sant'Antonio abate
SASSETTA
Santa Lucia
DOMENICO BECCAFUMI (XVI secolo)