San Domenico is a

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and

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style, consecrated

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church and former monastery. It is located on the corner of Largo Monsignor Muzi and Via Luca Signorelli, and adjacent to the Piazza di San Giovanni in Campo, in the center of

Città di Castello Città di Castello (); "Castle Town") is a city and ''comune'' in the province of Perugia, in the northern part of Umbria. It is situated on a slope of the Apennines, on the flood plain along the upper part of the river Tiber. The city is north of ...

, region of

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, Italy.

History

The

Dominican order The Order of Preachers ( la, Ordo Praedicatorum) abbreviated OP, also known as the Dominicans, is a Catholic mendicant order of Pontifical Right for men founded in Toulouse, France, by the Spanish priest, saint and mystic Dominic of ...

was introduced in the city in 1269, and was affiliated with a number of different churches. Construction of this austere brick church began in 1400 and was completed in 1424. The façade is unfinished. On the left are the square bell tower and the ogival portal dating to the 14th century. In 1724, the interior was refurbished, removing nine lateral altars. The church contains mostly fragmentary and restored frescoes inside; in 1911 many of the Baroque additions to the structure were removed. On the left wall, next to the side door, is a depiction of ''Saint Anthony'' (1426), facing the wall opposite a ''Crucifixion'', both attributed to

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. On the left side of the nave are three chapels with pointed arch entrances, one of which is dedicated to the Fallen in War and retains a 14th-century fresco depicting the ''Crucifixion with the Virgin and St John''. At the end of the aisle, the two altars once displayed respectively two

masterpieces, a ''Crucifixion'' (1503) by

Raphael Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, better known as Raphael (; or ; March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual a ...

for the family Gavari,; the other, a ''Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian'' (1498) by

Luca Signorelli Luca Signorelli ( – 16 October 1523) was an Italian Renaissance painter from Cortona in Tuscany, who was noted in particular for his ability as a draftsman and his use of foreshortening. His massive frescos of the ''Last Judgment'' (1499–15 ...

, for the family Brozzi and now in the Pinacoteca Comunale of the town. The main altar of the church contains the tomb of Blessed Margaret (1287-1320), Dominican tertiary, called the ''Blind of Metola'', from the place where she was born. The presbytery houses a precious wooden choir, called the ''Coro Manno'', carved and inlaid in 1435 by the Florentine Manno Benincasa. Other painters include

Santi di Tito Santi di Tito (5 December 1536 – 25 July 1603) was one of the most influential and leading Italian painters of the proto- Baroque style – what is sometimes referred to as "Counter-Maniera" or Counter-Mannerism. Biography He was born in Flo ...

and Francesco da Castello. The adjacent convent still maintains its 17th-century cloister, recently acquired by the City of Città di Castello The lunettes of the inner arches were frescoed between 1662 and 1667, depicting the ''Life of the Blessed Margherita''. Some of them were painted by

Giovanni Battista Pacetti Giovanni Battista Pacetti, nicknamed Lo Sguazzino (1593–1630) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in his native Città di Castello. His nickname derives from the splashed on technique. He was prolific in painting altarpieces and ...

other by Salvi, a pupil of Pietro da Cortona.Region of Umbria
Tourism site.

References

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