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Montemerano: The "Madonna della Gattaiola" (Our Lady of the Cattery)

The "Madonna della Gattaiola", painted around 1450 by an artist of the Sassetta school, nicknamed Maestro di Montemerano. The work has a hole at the bottom and the legend tells that it was made by a parish priest who, using the table as the door of a warehouse where food was stored in abundance, brought the hole to allow the passage of his cat, a true controller and bitter enemy of mice. It is located to the right of the altar in the church of San Giorgio a Montemerano.

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