Museo Bandini

This museum was named after the great scholar of Fiesole, Angiolo Maria Bandini (1726-1803), who worked as the chief librarian at the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana. Unusually for his time, he had an antiquarian interest in early art, accumulated a small collection which he left to the town of Fiesole. In 1913, this little museum was especially built to house.

It's tiny (only four rooms) but contains some exceptional early art, including in Room 1 a rare depiction of the pregnant Virgin, the golden Madonna del Parto by Nardo di Cione and panels by Agnolo Gaddi and an Annunciation attributed to his father, Taddeo Gaddi.

Room 2 contains outstanding trecento paintings by Lorenzo Monaco and Bernardo Daddi (St John the Evangelist) Lorenzo di Bicci, as well as works by his son, Bicci di Lorenzo and grandson Neri di Bicci.