Santa Maria Assunta is a

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-style,

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parish church located in the town of Arrone,

province of Terni The Province of Terni ( it, Provincia di Terni) is the smaller of the two provinces in the Umbria region of Italy, comprising one-third of both the area and population of the region. Its capital is the city of Terni. The province came into bein ...

, region of

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, Italy.

History

The church has a sober 15th-century white marble facade. The interior, including the apse. The interior contains various frescoes, including the following works:Umbria
Guida D'Italia, (1999) page 460. *''Madonna del Rosario'' (1609) attributed to

Giuseppe Bastiani Giuseppe Bastiani (active in 1594) was an Italian painter active in the Renaissance period, mainly in his hometown of Macerata. He was a disciple of Gaspare Gasparini. He painted frescoes in the church of Santa Maria Assunta, Arrone Santa Maria Ass ...

*''Madonna and Child with Saints Peter and John the Evangelist'', attributed to Francesco Cozza *''Annunciation'', ''Adoration by Shepherds'', ''Dormition of the Virgin'', and ''Coronation of Virgin'' (1516) by Vincenzo Tamagni and

Giovanni di Pietro da Spoleto Lo Spagna (died ''c.'' 1529), "the Spaniard" in Italian, was a painter of the High Renaissance, active in central Italy. His name was Giovanni di Pietro, but he was known as ''Lo Spagna'' because he was born in Spain. After Raphael, he was a m ...

*Frescoes in the apse (1544) by Jacopo Siculo *The main altar

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by the Maestro di Arrone (1487) was stolen in 1971.

References

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