Florence Sights

Chiesa di San Pancrazio & Museo Marino Marini

  • Address
    • Piazza San Pancrazio 1 Santa Maria Novella
  • Phone
    • tel, info: 055 21 94 32
  • Price
    • admission €4
  • Hours
    • 10:00-17:00 Mon-Sat Oct-May, 10:00-17:00 Mon-Fri Jun-Sep

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Lonely Planet review for Chiesa di San Pancrazio & Museo Marino Marini

As early as the 9th century a church stood here. The shabby-looking version you see today is what remains of the original building from the 14th and 15th centuries. The church, deconsecrated in the 19th century, now houses the Museo Marino Marini. Donated to the city by the Pistoia-born sculptor Marino Marini (1901-80), the collection contains about 200 of the artist's works, including sculptures, portraits and drawings. The overwhelmingly recurring theme appears to be man and horse, or rather man on horse.

The figures are, in some cases, simple-looking chaps in various poses suggesting rapture or extreme frustration; the horses too seem to express a gamut of emotion. At times, man and horse seem barely distinguishable from one another.

 

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