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Southern Tuscany : Monte Oliveto Maggiore

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Monte Oliveto Maggiore

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  • Nestled amid a cypress-covered hilltop in the crete senesi landscape of eroded clay and limestone bluffs is a 1313 Benedictine monastery. It guards a cloister frescoed with the Life of St Benedict , a masterpiece of High Renaissance narrative painting by Signorelli (the west wall’s eight scenes; 1497–98) and Sodoma (the other 25 scenes; 1505–1508). Sodoma inserted a self-portrait in the third scene, his pet badgers at his feet.

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Monte Oliveto Maggiore 0577 707 018 9:15am–noon, 3:15–5:45pm Free
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