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unusual facts about Palazzo Comunale, San Gimignano



Battista di Biagio Sanguigni

Between 1425 and 1427 the Master painted another triptych, this one depicting Saint Julian and given to the college of San Gimignano; it shows the influence of Masolino da Panicale.

Palazzo Comunale, San Gimignano

Other rooms contain a Maestà from the late thirteenth century, altar decorations by Memmo di Filippuccio, a "Madonna and Child" by Vincenzo Tamagni (1528), several Gothic altarpieces (including one showing scenes from the life of Saint Gimignano), a "Madonna with Saints Gregory and Benedict" by Pinturicchio, and two medieval crucifixes of the Florentine school.

San Gimignano

In the novel The Broker by John Grisham, Joel Backman takes his second of three wives on vacation in Italy to keep her from divorcing him.


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