Sant’Antonio Abate is a 14th-century church and convent located in

Cascia Cascia () is a town and ''comune'' (municipality) of the Italian province of Perugia in a rather remote area of the mountainous southeastern corner of Umbria. It is about 21 km from Norcia on the road to Rieti in the Lazio (63 km). It is ...

province of Perugia The Province of Perugia ( it, Provincia di Perugia) is the larger of the two provinces in the Umbria region of Italy, comprising two-thirds of both the area and population of the region. Its capital is the city of Perugia. The province covered al ...

, region of

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, Italy.

History

The convent was founded by the

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, and the church was frescoed in 14th century with frescoed by a painter (or painters) known as the ''Master of the Dormition'', depicting the ''Life of St Anthony Abbot''. A second series of frescoes depicting the ''Passion of Christ'' was painted in the second half of the 15th century by

Nicola da Siena Nicola di Ulisse, also known as Nicola da Siena or Nicola di Ulisse da Siena (active 1442 - 1470) was an Italian painter of the Umbro- Sienese school. Nicola was born in Siena, but was documented in Norcia by 1442, at work in the choir of Sant� ...

. The choir has a 15th-century wooden sculpture of ''Tobias and the Angel''. On the counterfacade is an organ installed in 1630 by Luca Neri of Leonessa.Museums of Comune of Cascia

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sant'Antonio Abate, Cascia Churches in the province of Perugia 14th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy