Frommer's Review
This 13th-century church at the north end of town is full of good 15th-century frescoes. In 1464, a plague swept the town and the citizens prayed to their patron saint to end it. When the sickness passed, they dutifully hired Benozzo Gozzoli to paint a thankful scene, on the nave's left wall, showing St. Gimignano and his cloak full of angels stopping and breaking the plague arrows being thrown down by a vengeful God and his angelic hosts. The city liked the results, so they commissioned Gozzoli to spend the next 2 years frescoing the choir behind the main altar floor-to-ceiling with scenes from the Life of St. Augustine.
Against the main entrance wall to the left is a chapel filled with an elaborate marble tomb (1495) by Benedetto di Maiano. Sebastiano Mainardi painted the frescoes on the chapel's vaults and the Saints Gimignano (holding his city), Lucy, and Nicholas of Bari to the left of the tomb. Next to the cloister door on the nave's left wall is another fresco by Sebastiano Mainardi, this one of an enthroned St. Gimignano blessing three of the city's dignitaries.
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