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church located on Largo del Cremore in the town of

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in the region of

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, Italy.

History

The church was begun in the 13th century, but the present church was altered over the centuries. The present main entrance is a façade on the right nave, which has both Romanesque and Gothic elements, and has a single portal. The belltower, detached from the church likely reutilizes a former private watchtower, now complete with mullioned windows. the interior is divided into a nave and two aisles by alternating pilasters and columns. A 1950–1954 restoration uncovered traces of 13th-century frescoes, including an ''Enthroned Madonna and Child between St John the Evangelist and St Michael the Archangel weighing souls''. The church also houses the 15th-century, travertine marble tomb monument of Nicola Pizzuti, built as a gothic-renaissance style tabernacle, with frescoes of the school of

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in the spandrels, depicting the ''Evangelists'' and ''Cardinal Virtues''.Tourism of Marche
description of the church.

References

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