Museo di arte sacra della Pieve di Santa Maria Assunta

About the museum

The museum preserves the sacred art heritage of the Pieve di Santa Maria Assunta in Bientina, largely linked to devotion to the body of the martyr St Valentine, whose relics were transferred to the church in 1699. After that event many donations of sacred furnishings arrived.

The collection comprises more than a hundred objects, mainly silverwork of the 17th and 18th centuries, such as candlesticks, chalices, censers, monstrances and reliquaries, made by silversmiths from Lucca, Pisa and Florence. Liturgical vestments from the late 16th to the late 18th century are also on display, notable for the quality of their fabrics.

The pieve, which became a parish church in the 15th century and was consecrated in 1644, preserves a monumental 17th-century organ with a gilded wooden case and an interior decorated in the Rococo style, with a painted wooden ceiling.

Highlights

• Sacred silverwork of the 17th and 18th centuries by silversmiths from Lucca, Pisa and Florence
• Reliquaries linked to the cult of St Valentine
• Liturgical vestments from the late 16th to the late 18th century
• Pieve di Santa Maria Assunta with a 17th-century organ and Rococo interiors

Permanent exhibition

• Argenti sacri e paramenti liturgici della Pieve – More than a hundred liturgical silver objects and vestments from the 16th to the 18th century, linked to the cult of St Valentine.

Founded

1993

Operated by

Comune di Bientina

Visitors per year

approx. 1,000

Admission & discounts

Admission is free.

Free admission according to the Terre di Pisa portal.

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Amenities & dining

• Museum shop

Bookshop with guides and catalogues.

Events & venue rental

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