San Giacomo is a church located on Piazza Olivieri in central

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, region of

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, Italy.

History

The present church owes its layout to a 17th-century

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 reconstruction of a prior 15th-century church. The reconstruction re oriented the church in an opposite direction. One remnant of the prior church is a fresco fragment in the belltower of the ''Madonna della Pace''. The present façade was designed in 1825 in Neoclassical style by

Giuseppe Olmeda Giuseppe is the Italian form of the given name Joseph, from Latin Iōsēphus from Ancient Greek Ἰωσήφ (Iōsḗph), from Hebrew יוסף. It is the most common name in Italy and is unique (97%) to it. The feminine form of the name is Giuse ...

. The interior contains canvases by

Agostino Castellaci Agostino Castellacci (born 1670) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Biography He was born in Ascoli Piceno, and was initially a pupil of Antonio Cecchini, then he joined, along with fellow pupil Francesco Mancini, the studio of Carlo ...

and Pietro Tedeschi; and a funeral monument of Count Annibale Olivieri, designed by the architect Giannandrea Lazzarini and provided with sculptures by the sculptor Sebastiano Pantanelli. An inventory from 1864 lists the main altarpiece as an ''Enthroned Madonna with Angels'' in the style of

Giovanni Sanzio Giovanni Santi (c. 1435 – 1 August 1494) was an Italian painter, decorator, and the father of Raphael. He was born in 1435 at Colbordolo in the Duchy of Urbino. He studied under Piero della Francesca and was influenced by Fiorenzo di Lorenzo. ...

.Guida di Pesaro
page 149.

References

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