Santa Apollonia (Pisa)

Church of Santa Apollonia

Basic information
Location	Pisa, Italy
Geographic coordinates	Coordinates: 43°43′11.55″N 11°24′5.73″E / 43.7198750°N 11.4015917°E / 43.7198750; 11.4015917
Affiliation	Roman Catholic
Province	Pisa
Architectural description
Architect(s)	Mattia Tarocchi
Architectural type	Church
Architectural style	Baroque
Groundbreaking	before 1116
Completed	1777

Santa Apollonia is a church in Pisa, Italy.

Once called San Pietro a Schia, this church is known from documents from 1116, and a reconstruction in 1277. In 1777, the Pisan architect Mattia Tarocchi reconstructed the church in Baroque style. The interior houses the altar and stucco and mural decorations by Tarocchi, and paintings by Aurelio Lomi, Pandolfo Titi, and the 19th-century painter Giuseppe Bacchini.

Sources

Barsali, U.; U. Castelli; R. Gagetti; O. Parra (1999). Storia e Capolavori di Pisa. Florence: Bonechi.
Donati, Roberto. Pisa. Arte e storia. Narni: Plurigraf.

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