San Michele, Carmignano. San Michele e San Francesco is a renaissance-style, Roman Catholic parish church located in the Piazza SS Francesco e Michele in the town of Carmignano, province of Prato, region of Tuscany, Italy.
It is best known for housing the Jacopo Pontormo altarpiece of the Visitation. The pieve church was putatively established after a visit to the town in 1211 by St Francis of Assisi.
Under the patronage of Bernardo da Quintavalle a small convent and oratory were built. The present church, with a single nave typical of Franciscan churches, was built in 1330, with refurbishments over the centuries.
The convent was suppressed in 1798. During World War II, the church was damaged, and reconstruction aimed to restore it to its medieval layout.
This joined the church to the Oratory of St Sebastian on the left and the cloister on the right. The portal has a memorial to Giovanni Parenti of Carmignano, general of the Franciscans. The interiors has six lateral altars. The first on the right has a canvas depicting the Madonna del Carmine and Saints, attributed to Giovanni Battista Naldini. The second altar on the right houses the Visitation by Pontormo painted for I Pinadori. The third altar houses an altarpiece depicting St Francis receives the Stigmata also attributed to Naldini. The church has an organ by Giosuo Agati. The presbytery houses a number of modern works and a large 16th-century cha
It is best known for housing the Jacopo Pontormo altarpiece of the Visitation. The pieve church was putatively established after a visit to the town in 1211 by St Francis of Assisi.
Under the patronage of Bernardo da Quintavalle a small convent and oratory were built. The present church, with a single nave typical of Franciscan churches, was built in 1330, with refurbishments over the centuries.
The convent was suppressed in 1798. During World War II, the church was damaged, and reconstruction aimed to restore it to its medieval layout.
This joined the church to the Oratory of St Sebastian on the left and the cloister on the right. The portal has a memorial to Giovanni Parenti of Carmignano, general of the Franciscans. The interiors has six lateral altars. The first on the right has a canvas depicting the Madonna del Carmine and Saints, attributed to Giovanni Battista Naldini. The second altar on the right houses the Visitation by Pontormo painted for I Pinadori. The third altar houses an altarpiece depicting St Francis receives the Stigmata also attributed to Naldini. The church has an organ by Giosuo Agati. The presbytery houses a number of modern works and a large 16th-century cha
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