San Giovanni Battista dei Fiorentini


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Chapel of the Holy Virgin
The center of the altarpiece is a fresco fragment, much restored and now faded, of Virgin and Child, taken for this chapel from the wall of a nearby street in 1640, attributed to Filippino Lippi. The story attached to it is that a man playing boules lost badly, threw a boule at the image in fury and was paralyzed as a result for forty days.

Related links:  Filippino Lippi

(Photo borrowed from internet)
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