San Sebastiano is a

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church located in the town of

Mondolfo Mondolfo is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Pesaro e Urbino in the Italy, Italian region Marche, located about northwest of Ancona and about southeast of Pesaro, on the Adriatic Sea. Mondolfo borders the following municipaliti ...

, province of Pesaro and Urbino, region of

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, Italy.

History

The church, built in a Greek cross layout, was built in 1479 as an ex voto by the community for the ebbing of the plague. During the 16th century, it was affiliated with the Franciscan order, until their expulsion during the Napoleonic occupation. The church was refurbished in the 18th century. The adjacent convent is highly altered.

Sebastiano Ceccarini Sebastiano Ceccarini (1703–1783), born in Fano, was an Italian Baroque painter. He was a student of Francesco Mancini (1679–1758), Francesco Mancini and the teacher of his nephew Carlo Magini. Biography He painted in Rome during the papacy o ...

painted an altarpiece, depicting the ''Madonna and Child with St Francis and St Sebastian and the Castle of Mondolfo in Background''.Marche Tourism office
entry on church.

References

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