San Gimignano - Municipal Art Gallery

(Local Name: Museo Civico) Within the Palazzo del Pópolo is the Museo Civico (Municipal Art Gallery). Passing through a picturesque courtyard with a well of 1361, we come into the Sala Dante, so called after a visit to the town by the poet in 1300, when he sought to persuade the municipal councilors to join the Guelf League; the date 1299 given in an inscription in the room is incorrect. On the right-hand wall of the room is a "Maestà" (Madonna enthroned) by Lippo Memmi (1317). The collection also includes a painted Crucifix by Coppo di Marcovaldo (13th century), a "Madonna and Child" by Pinturicchio (1512), two tondi depicting the "Annunciation" by Filippino Lippi (1483) and numbers of notable works by Florentine and Sienese painters of the 13th-15th centuries.