The Oratory of St John the Baptist (Oratorio di San Giovanni Battista) is a 14th-century small chapel or prayer hall located in Via Francesco Barocci, in
Urbino
Urbino ( , ; Romagnol: ''Urbìn'') is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Italy, Italian region of Marche, southwest of Pesaro, a World Heritage Site notable for a remarkable historical legacy of independent Renaissance culture, especially und ...
, Region of the
Marche
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, Italy.
The oratory is best known for its late
Gothic
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style fresco cycle (1416) by the brothers
Lorenzo
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and
Jacopo Salimbeni. The subjects include a Madonna dell’Umiltà and a Crucifixion, In addition the oratory has scenes from the life of John the Baptist such as: the ''Annunciation of Birth''; his ''Baptism of Jesus'', ''Career in Baptizing'', and ''Sermons of St John''.
Turismo in the Marche
entry on oratory.
References
Roman Catholic churches in Urbino
14th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy
Paintings in Urbino
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