I' Barzello In Vicchio

03/07/2025: Fantastic news! The restoration work on the Cappella Del Giglio-Neri has been completed. The conservation work focused on the interior decorations, bringing to light the frescoes painted by Bernardino Poccetti, born Bernardo Barbatelli, an artist active between the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th century. The pictorial cycle is organized into three main elements: the Coronation of Mary, the stories of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, founder of the Cistercian order, and those of Philip Neri, depicted even before his canonization, which took place in 1622. The central nucleus of the figurative expression is present in the dome, where Bernardino Poccetti painted a lively scene of the Coronation of Mary surrounded by a crowded group of joyful and happy saints. This pictorial representation was created in a period of transition between the Counter-Reformation and the Baroque, in which the devotional and celebratory practices of the patronal Neri family were placed at a point of balance in the artist's lively expressive narrative.

11/05/2025: The church is currently undergoing conservative restoration and the little that has been seen of the interior allows us to imagine the great beauty for those lucky enough to be able to visit it when the works are finished.