San Lino, Volterra

San Lino
Religion
Affiliation	Roman Catholic
Province	Pisa
Location
Location	Volterra, Italy
Architecture
Type	Church
Style	Renaissance

San Lino is an ancient church in Volterra, Italy. It is located on Via San Lino.

The adjacent convent, now a hotel, was originally founded in 1480, supposedly on the home of the first-century saint and Pope Linus, of whom little can be documented. Legend holds that he was born in Volterra. Raffaelo Maffei, a native citizen who had been theologian for both Popes Julius II and Sixtus IV, endowed construction of the church and enlargement of the adjacent monastery (1517) at a cost of 80,000 scudi. The presbytery of the church contains a memorial bust (1522) of Maffei by Silvio da Fiesole (Silvio Cosini) with flanking statues of the Archangel Raphael and Beato Gerardo on his tomb by Fra Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli and Stagio Stagi. The interior ceiling is decorated with frescoed lunnetes, including Stories of the Life of Christ (around 1618) by Cosimo Daddi. The church has a main altarpiece painted on wood with a Virgin and San Lino (1597) painted by Francesco Curradi, a Birth of Mary (17th century) by Cesare Dandini, and a Visitation also by Daddi.

Inner view

Sources

• Italian Wikipedia entry