The modern marble pulpit and altar are from 2002 and considered controversial — too modern or simply not up to the artistic standard of the medieval masters?
The large mosaic in the apse of Christ enthroned between the Virgin and Saint John survived the fire of 1595. St John’s face (1302) was the last work by Cimabue.
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