Siena - Santa Maria dei Servi

The Banchi di Sotto and the streets which continue in the same direction lead to the Church of Santa Maria degli Servi, at the southeast end of the old town. It was originally built in the 13th century but was altered in the 15th-16th centuries in the style of the period. The plain facade was left unfinished; the Romanesque campanile which flanks it has four orders of windows, increasing in number from level to level so as to enhance the effect of perspective. Within the aisled church, on the right, is the "Madonna del Bordone" (depicting the Virgin and Child with two Angels), by Coppo di Marcovaldo (1261). In the second chapel in the south transept is a famous fresco, the "Slaughter of the Innocents" by Pietro Lorenzetti (c. 1330), and on the altar is Lippo Memmi's "Madonna del Pópolo" (c. 1317).