The Nunziatina 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,

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oratory or small church at the north end of Via del Seminario, near the Todi Cathedral, in the center of

Todi Todi () is a town and ''comune'' (municipality) of the province of Perugia (region of Umbria) in central Italy. It is perched on a tall two-crested hill overlooking the east bank of the river Tiber, commanding distant views in every direction. I ...

, province of Perugia, region of

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, Italy.

History

The oratory was founded in the 17th century through a gift of land by the Bishop Angelo Cesi, to a local confraternity of the Santissima Annunziata, which had been active since the 13th-century. The confraternity was putatively involved in ministering to passing pilgrims. Over the years, the prayer hall was enriched with frescoes and paintings. Putatively a former paneled ceiling was destroyed in a fire in 1700. Among the paintings present now are works by

Andrea Polinori Andrea Polinori (1586 – 1648) was an Italians, Italian painter active in a Baroque art, Baroque-style mainly in his native city of Todi in Umbria. Biography He was born in Todi. He spent a formative period circa 1615 in Rome. He is describe ...

, including a 1627 depiction of

Jacopone da Todi Jacopone da Todi, O.F.M. (ca. 1230 – 25 December 1306) was an Italian Franciscan friar from Umbria. He wrote several ''laude'' (songs in praise of the Lord) in the local vernacular. He was an early pioneer in Italian theatre, being one of ...

.Visitodi website
Todi tourism website sponsored by the Region of Umbria.

References

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