Museum
The little friary houses the museum of the Porziuncola with many religious objects, archaeological finds, and a noteworthy collection of paintings:
- the Crucifix by Giunta Pisano (1236)
- a wooden painting portrait of St. Francis by the (anonymous) Maestro di San Francesco (13th century); the body of the deceased saint was placed on this painting.
- a painting on wood of St. Francis attributed to Cimabue
- a Madonna with Child by the Sienese painter Sano di Pietro (14th century)
- a terracotta by Andrea della Robbia (c. 1490) with in the top from left to right :"St. Francis receives the Stigmata", "Coronation of Mary" and "St. Jerome the penitent"; bottom, from left to right : "the Annunciation", "the Nativity", and "the Adoration of the Magi".
- St. Francis and St. Clare by Cesare Sermei and his workshop.
- the Madonna of the Milk, a polychromed terracotta sculpture (end 14th, early 15th c.)
- many frescoes of uncertain attribution.
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