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Arte Sacra
The Museum of Sacred Art collects paintings, sculptures and sacred objects from the churches in the vicariate of Certaldo, already held in the rectory of Propositura St. Thomas, in the modern part of town the home of Giovanni Boccaccio. The collection of works of art is placed on the whole of the Augustinian SS.Jacopo and Philip and the headquarters of the Society of the Precious Blood of Jesus, formerly the SS. Annunziata. Admission is done by the cloister and church SS.Jacopo Philip. Tip of works by Francesco di Ser Cenni, Mark di Bonaventura, Ugolino di Nerio. The most valuable piece is the charming wooden crucifix in the second half of the thirteenth century, a Christ "triumphans" - that is the living Christ who triumphed over death - among the most exemplary of the original medieval Italian sculpture.