San Gimignano - Sant'Agostino

A little way north of the Porta San Matteo, at the northern tip of the old town of San Gimignano within the walls, stands the Church of Sant'Agostino, an aisleless brick church built by Augustinian Canons between 1280 and 1298 in the plain Gothic style of the Mendicant Orders. Immediately on the right of the entrance is the Cappella di San Bártolo, with a sumptuous marble altar by Benedetto da Maiano (1494) containing the remains of San Bártolo. On the high altar is an altar-piece depicting the Coronation of the Virgin by Piero Pollaiuolo (1483).