The Basilica of St Francis

The Paintings in the Nave

  • Along the nave’s walls a series of metal structures brings to mind the baroque altars which, built after the fire of 1655, housed the paintings commissioned by the leading families of Siena. At the end of the nineteenth century, the Sienese architect Giuseppe Partini restored the church bringing it back to its original gothic appearance and destroying the altars. The seventeenth and eighteenth . . .