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The Bandini Museum in Fiesole, Tuscany

Via Duprè 1, Fiesole
The museum is located in the building designed and built in 1913 by the architect Giuseppe Castellucci. Reopened to the public with a new layout in 1990, it preserves and displays the art collection gathered throughout the life of Angelo Maria Bandini, a church going man, a scholar, an historian and philologist (1726-1803).

One of the most interesting elements of the collection is the group of works dating back to the early years of Tuscan art and more specifically to "gilded" paintings, comprising a Crucified Christ attributed to Meliore, the paintings of Bernardo Daddi, Taddeo Gaddi, Lorenzo di Bicci, Neri di Bicci, Crucifixion with Madonna, St. John and St. Francis by Lorenzo Monaco and the Madonna del Parto by Nardo di Cione.

Extraordinary and suggestive are also the 15th century works like the Triumph of Love, Modesty, Time and Eternity by Jacopo del Sellaio, the Madonna with the Child and an Angel painted by the assistants of Botticelli and the Crowning of the Virgin by the Maestro dei Cassoni Campana.

A very important group of works is represented by the terracottas from the school of the Della Robbia brothers, which will be displayed only from 1999 onwards due to the restoration works on the museum's ground floor.
Guided tours for schools can be reserved ahead.

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