Museo di San Francesco, Greve in Chianti site features

The ground-floor oratory holds the strongest group.

There is a marble bas-relief of San Francesco d'Assisi of the 14th century, from the church of San Pietro a Sillano; an Annunciation of the 14th century, tempera on panel by an anonymous Florentine painter, from the church of Santa Croce at Greve; and a Madonna with the Child between saints Bartholomew and Francis of Assisi of the late 15th century, by Francesco Granacci, from the church of Santa Maria a Cintoia.

The centrepiece is the polychrome terracotta altarpiece of the Compianto sul Cristo morto — the Lamentation over the Dead Christ — of the 16th century, from the workshop of Baccio da Montelupo. The record notes that the work has perhaps kept its original location above the altar of the oratory, which would make it the one thing in the museum that is where it was meant to be. Its frame of fruit and flower festoons in glazed terracotta was made in 1515–1520, was inserted later, and is attributed to the workshop of Benedetto and Santi Buglioni.

Also here: a Madonna with Child between saints Anthony Abbot and Lucy of the first quarter of the 16th century, from San Martino a Sezzate.

The sacristy, along with the sacred vestments, holds a reliquary Cross of the second half of the 14th century in rock crystal, of Venetian workshop, from the church of Santo Stefano a Montefioralle; and a San Silvestro papa benedicente of the 16th century in painted glass, executed by the workshop of the Frati Gesuati, probably to a design by Francesco Granacci.

The first floor holds a Pace with Mary and St John the Evangelist mourning, lacking the Crucifix at its centre, in carved, painted and gilded ivory and inlaid wood of the 14th–15th century, from the bottega degli Embriachi; a Madonna with Child of the 15th century in painted stucco attributed to Nanni di Bartolo; a thurible and incense boat of 1611 in embossed brass; the reliquary of San Cassiano of the 17th century, from the badia di Montescalari; an Assumption of the Virgin of the 17th century; a Madonna assunta between saints Lucy and Anthony of Padua of the first half of the 17th century by Francesco Curradi; and a Saint Rose of the second half of the 19th century attributed to Michele Gordigiani.

The archaeological section completes the first floor, with finds of various periods from the territory: a small bronze bull protome, bronze coins, fragments of amphorae and jars, and loom and fishing weights.

The Compianto sul Cristo morto

Polychrome terracotta of the 16th century from the workshop of Baccio da Montelupo, and perhaps still in its original place above the oratory altar. Note the name: this is a Lamentation, not a Deposition — a distinction the town's own article gets wrong.

The Buglioni frame, 1515–1520

Festoons of fruit and flowers in glazed terracotta, inserted later than the altarpiece and attributed to the workshop of Benedetto and Santi Buglioni. The same Buglioni hand as the ciborium in Santa Croce down the road.

Francesco Granacci's Madonna

Late 15th century, with saints Bartholomew and Francis, from Santa Maria a Cintoia. Granacci also probably designed the painted-glass San Silvestro in the sacristy — two works by one hand, in two different media, in one small museum.

The Venetian rock-crystal reliquary cross

Second half of the 14th century, from Santo Stefano a Montefioralle — the church in the walled borgo above the town.

The Embriachi Pace

Carved, painted and gilded ivory with inlaid wood, 14th–15th century, from the celebrated bottega degli Embriachi. It is missing the Crucifix from its centre, and the record says so.

The 14th-century San Francesco bas-relief

In marble, from San Pietro a Sillano — and 14th-century, not 15th as the town article has it.

The Antiquarium

From November 2003: Etruscan, Roman and medieval finds from the comune, including a small bronze bull protome, coins, amphora fragments and loom and fishing weights — the domestic archaeology of the Val di Greve.