Sant'Agostino is a

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style,

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church located on Via Umberto I #29, facing Piazza Lorenzo Valerio, in

Matelica Matelica is a (municipality) of the Province of Macerata in the Italian region of Marche. Located about southwest of Ancona and west of Macerata, it extends over an area of . Geography Matelica lies in an ample valley where the Braccano ...

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, region of

Marche Marche ( ; ), in English sometimes referred to as the Marches ( ) from the Italian name of the region (Le Marche), is one of the Regions of Italy, twenty regions of Italy. The region is located in the Central Italy, central area of the country, ...

, Italy.

History

The church of Sant'Agostino was built in the 13th century on the steep hillside on the outskirts of the medieval town. The Romanesque-style rounded arch stone entrance portal, decorated with floral and vegetative motifs, is the only part of the original church that remains. The portal now perilously leans toward the street. The remainder of the church was rebuilt in the 18th century with a dome, and interiors decorated with stucco in baroque style. The church contains three late 16th-century works attributed to

Ercole Ramazzani Ercole Ramazzani (1530-1598) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period. He was born at Rocca Contrada (modern Arcevia, then part of the Papal States), and was a follower of the styles of Pietro Perugino and Raphael. He is asserted t ...

: ''Noli me Tangere''; ''St Nicola di Tolentino intercedes for Souls in Purgatory''; and a ''Madonna, Child and Saints''. A painting depicting the ''St Francis in Extasis receives the stigmata'' is attributed to the studio of

Guercino Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (February 8, 1591 – December 22, 1666),Miller, 1964 better known as (il) Guercino (), was an Italian Baroque painter and draftsman from Cento in the Emilia region, who was active in Rome and Bologna. The vigorous n ...

. Patrimonio artistico of Matelica

References

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