Santa Maria dei Servi

Basilica dei Servi, Siena
Photo by Sailko.

San Clemente in Santa Maria dei Servi is a Romanesque church with lovely altarpieces in Siena

Basilica Santa Maria dei Servi, SienaThis cavernous Romanesque church at the ege of town with the rough brick anti-facade was built in the 13th century (though renovated in the 15th and 16th centuries) and contains some lovely alatrpieces from every era of Sienese painting, from Byzantine and Gothic through Renaisance and baroque.

Among the best works:

    Madonna del Bordone, Coppo di Marcovaldo (1261), Santa Maria dei Servi, Siena
    Madonna del Bordone, Coppo di Marcovaldo (1261)
  • A seven-foot Madonna del Bordone by Byzantine master Coppo di Marcovaldo painted in 1261 with the typical Byzantine almond eyes, spoon nose, and levitating midget Jesus, but notice how the gold cross-hatchings in the deep blue and red robes have a bit of curve and grace to them when compared to the usual ruler-straight angled starbursts of typical Byzantine golded hatchings.
  • Taddeo di Bartoldo's late Gothic Nativity/Adoration of the Shepherds (1404).
  • A Madonna with Child by Duccio.
  • A maginifcent Massacre of the Innocents by Matteo di Giovanni (1491).
  • Rutilio Manetti's baroque Birth of the Virgin in the third chapel on the right.
  • A trio of works by Sienese Gothic great Pietro Lorenzetti: another Massacre of the Innocents, Feast of Herod, and Life of St. John the Evangelist.

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Chiesa di San Clemente in Santa Maria dei Servi
Piazza Manzoni/Via delli Servi
» (a block beyond the end of Via Salicotto, in the Terza di San Martino)
tel. +39-0577-222-633
Open daily 8:30am–6:30pm
Free

How long does Santa Maria dei Servi take?

Planning your day: Give it 20 minutes—though budget another 15 for the pleasant stroll to and from the church, as it is at the far end of town.

Mass at Santa Maria dei Servi

Mass is held Saturdays at 6pm, Sundays at noon and 6pm

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Chiesa di San Clemente in Santa Maria dei Servi
Piazza Manzoni/Via delli Servi
» (a block beyond the end of Via Salicotto, in the Terza di San Martino)
tel. +39-0577-222-633
Open daily 8:30am–6:30pm
Free


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