Santi Maria e Lorenzo is a

baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

-style, Roman Catholic collegiate church on Via Giacomo Leopardi in the town of Rotella, in the province of Ascoli Piceno, region of

Marche Marche ( , ) is one of the twenty regions of Italy. In English, the region is sometimes referred to as The Marches ( ). The region is located in the central area of the country, bordered by Emilia-Romagna and the republic of San Marino to the ...

, Italy.

History and description

The church was built in 1767, based on a design of

Lazzaro Giosafatti Lazzaro is both a masculine Italian given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name *Lazzaro Baldi ( – 1703), Italian Baroque painter * Lazzaro Bastiani (1429–1512), Italian Renaissance painter *Lazzaro Calamech, 16t ...

. The church has a single nave, but various side altars. Among the interior artwork is a 15th-century polychrome terracotta ''Pietà'', the reliquary of St Fortunato, a 17th-century organ, a 15th-century God the father sculpted in marble. The sacristy is richly decorated and the ceiling is frescoed with the ''Life of St Benedict''.Commune of Rotella, short description of the church

References

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