The Collegiate Church of Santa Maria Assunta ( it, Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, Sermoneta) is a
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church located in
Sermoneta, southern
Lazio, Italy. The church is often referred to as a cathedral ("cattedrale") but has never been the seat of a bishop. It is dedicated to the
Assumption of the Virgin Mary.
History
The church is documented for the first time in the 12th century (1149–60). A
palaeo-Christian church was possibly first built in the 5th century over a temple dedicated to the pagan goddess
Cybele. The
Romanesque church was refurbished in the next century in a Gothic style.
Description
The church has a tall square bell-tower with rounded arches. The Gothic portico leads to a nave supported by marble columns. The lunette of the portico was frescoed in the 15th century with a ''Madonna and Child with Saints Peter and
Epaphroditus'' and ''Christ and four angels'' by
Pietro Colaberti
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of Piperno. The interior chapels also have frescoes.
The first chapel on the right was refurbished in the 1590s by the De Marchis family. The wall frescoes depict contemporary figures such as
Carlo Borromeo and the donors. The main altarpiece, the ''Madonna degli Angeli'' (c. 1452), is attributed to
Benozzo Gozzoli. Other sources attribute the work to the time after a plague epidemic or
earthquake in 1456–57. The church also has frescoes attributed to
Bernardino Cesari
Bernardino Cesari (1571 – 30 June 1622) was an Italian painter of the late-Mannerist and early Baroque period, active mainly in Rome and Naples, where he assisted his brother Giuseppe Cesari (Cavaliere d'Arpino).
On 9 November 1592, he was sent ...
depicting the ''Life of the Virgin''. Works of art in the church is an altarpiece depicting the ''Holy Family with St Anne and John'' from a 16th-century Neapolitan artist. The church also has a 15th-century ''Last Judgement'' fresco.
In the adjacent Diocesan Museum of Art are altarpieces including:
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*''Coronation of the Virgin'' (1576) by Girolamo Siciolante
*''St. Michael Archangel'' (1595) by Francesco da Castello
Francesco da Castello (Flemish: Frans Van de Casteele) was a Flemish-Italian painter and manuscript illuminator, active in Rome.
Biography
The details of his life here were documented by the contemporary artist-biographer Giovanni Baglione. Franc ...
*''Madonna and Child with Saints Stephen and Lawrence'' (17th century)
*''Annunciation'' (1606) by Matteo Rosselli
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He first appre ...
*''Madonna of the Rosary with St Francis, Jerome, Dominic, and Catherine of Siena'' by Giovanni Domenico Fiorentini Giovanni may refer to:
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*''Madonna and Child with Saints Ignatius, Francesco Borgia, Stanislao Kostka, Aloysius Gonzaga, Francis Xavier, and the blessed Claudio Acquaviva'' by Odoardo Vicinelli
Odoardo Vicinelli (1684–1755) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period.
He trained under Giovanni Maria Morandi of Florence. In Rome he also worked with Pietro Nelli. He painted a ''Madonna and Child with Saints Ignatius, Francesco Bor ...
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13th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy
Gothic architecture in Lazio