Visit Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Servi (Montepulciano), Italy

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The church of Santa Maria dei Servi is a fourteenth-century church located in Montepulciano. It presents the gabled façade, with regular travertine ashlars arranged "a filaretto" and enriched by a splayed portal, with a pointed arch surmounted by a cusp. The sloping roofs are adorned with a row of trilobate hanging arches, resting on corbels. The bell tower in bricks, with slender single- lancet windows flanked by pilasters , dates back to the eighteenth century. The interior, with a single nave, was renovated between the end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth century: the works began in 1701, in 1702 the main altar was rededicated and ended in 1712. Andrea Pozzo designed the interior of the building and stucco decorations, but was unable to follow the construction site. There is a fresco with the Madonna of the Santoreggia, from the Sienese school of the fourteenth century, a Madonna with Child attributed to the first period of activity of Ugolino di Nerio, follower of Duccio di Buoninsegna ( 1310 - 1315 ) and a fourteenth-century fresco Crucifix.

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