San Savino 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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church located on Piazza Vittorio Emanuele III and Via Giacomo Leopardi in the town of Gualdo, province of Macerata, in the 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

An earlier 14th century church at the site was rebuilt in the late 18th century by the architect

Pietro Maggi Pietro Maggi (Milan, circa 1680 - Milan, before 1738) was an Italian painter of the late- Baroque period. Biography He was influenced by Carlo Francesco Nuvolone (died 1702) but studied and worked with Filippo Abbiati. Together they painted fre ...

. The layout is that of a Greek Cross with a central dome with ribbed arches. The simple brick façade is flanked a single bell tower; it contains a marble plaque dedicated to those fallen during the war. The interior, including the cupula, was frescoed in the 1930s by Guglielmo Ciarlantini with decorative symbols and grotteschi. The main altarpiece, depicting a ''Madonna and Child with St John the Baptist and St Savino'', was painted by

Antonio Liozzi Antonio Liozzi (1730–1807) was an Italian painter, active in a late-Baroque style in his native city of Penna San Giovanni. Biography He was born to a middle-class family in Penna San Giovanni, a town in the province of Macerata. The major ...

. The left transept has an altar with a canvas depicting the ''Last Supper'' (1693) attributed to

Ubaldo Ricci Ubaldo Ricci (1669-1731) was an Italian painter of the late- Baroque who practised in Italy in the 18th century. He was born in Fermo and trained in Rome under Giovanni Francesco Romanelli and Carlo Maratta . He is part of the family of painters t ...

. The work was commissioned by the confraternity of the Santissimo Sacramento.TurismoMacerata
Portal of the province of Macerata, by Fondazione Carima (Cassa di Risparmio della Provincia di Macerata) in alliance with local authorities.

References

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