Pistoia - San Domenico

To the south of San Giovanni stands the Church of San Doménico, built in the 12th century and enlarged about 1380. Originally the church of a Dominican friary, it shows the unadorned Gothic style of the Mendicant Orders. In the spacious interior are remains of 14th century frescoes. Behind the first side altar on the right is the church's most notable monument, the Tomb of Filippo Lazzari by Bernardo and Antonio Rossellino (1462-68). The chapterhouse has a 13th century fresco of the Crucifixion, and in the adjoining rooms are other frescoes of the 15th and 16th century, formerly in the church.