Frescoes in Tuscany

Frescoes in Tuscany

 

Most Tuscan  frescoes can be found as marginal notes in the guide books, even if  they have long been examined by the art historians. the majority of them has been superbly restored during the past two decades. They are in better condition than many a panel painting in the famous museums. These paintings are the beginning of the Renaissance .

Florence requires more than a week only to see its frescoes in The Brancacci Chapel in Santa Maria del Carmine or in the Green Cloisters of Santa Maria Novella where you can find the Uccello's badly damaged haunting paintings, or in the Convent of San Marco where you can see the Fra Angelico's minimalist paintings.

But you can find Tuscan earliest paintings not only in Florence , the bucolic frescoes of Mommo di Filippuccio and Lippo Memmi in San Gimignano, Bartolo in the Spedale Santa Maria della Scala in Siena, or Il Sodoma's cloisters in the Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore are a graceful variation and give a lively picture of the tre- and quattrocento even if they may not be comparably high art.