Church of Santa Maria Infraportas

The church, As documented by the parish 1138, was erected on the spot where once stood a chapel dedicated to the Assumption of the eighth century, St. Peter and St. Paul. With the construction of the Romanesque church, in the twelfth century, The chapel was incorporated into the left aisle. The level deCaratteristico the portico with three arches supported by columns with Romanesque capitals which protects the entrance to the church. The facade courses has a pink and white stone mullioned window which replaced the original canopy. Theinternal is marked with three aisles by pillars: The oldest central barrel-vaulted, and added in the fifteenth century the side vault. To the left of interesting is the already mentioned Chapel of St. Peter the Assumption, which is the oldest part of the church. This has two beautiful mullioned windows on the right wall; conch in more than traces of paint badly damaged Byzantine, which represent, one in front of the other, San Disma (The Good Thief) and San Michele arcangelo, frescoes attributed to an unknown Umbrian painter of the second half of the twelfth century. In the background are a niche Blessing Christ between St. Peter and St. Paul and a decoration inspired by a sort of Oriental tapestry. Here were also placed some wooden polychrome sculptures, including a Madonna and Child Enthroned thirteenth-century, now housed in the Diocesan Museum (Child was stolen in 1987). In left aisle the first pillar is a Madonna of the Milk, attributed to John of Corraduccio, while on the wall is visible a Madonna and Child with St. John the Evangelist, on a background painted tapestry and held up by angels, work signed by Ugolino of Gisberto and, then, dating from the sixteenth century. On the inner face of the second pillar, within a kiosk, you can see a Madonna and Child, polychrome stucco of the late fifteenth century and gravestone depicting a recumbent bishop. Last column, under the arch on the right, is a fresco depicting Pierantonio Mezzastris St. Roch and Angels; opposite, more San Rocco (second half of the fifteenth century). In aisle, within the first recess, Crucifixion with the Virgin, St. John and angels, the second half of the fifteenth century, side, on the wall, a santa (Lucia?); in the second niche, Crucifixion, copy of the previous, performed in 1525, a segue St. Nicholas, markedly reduced; in the third niche, Crucifixion, by Madonna, St. John and the customer, the Master of the Crucifixion Bevagna; follow St. John the Baptist (early fifteenth century) and a Pieta with Angels, attributed to Christopher by Jacopo. On the left side of the same nave, under the first arch, Christ Carrying the Cross, work attributed Alunno; the second pillar, Santa Lucia, Sant'Amico, early works by Pierantonio Mezzastris, under the second arc, on the pillar, St. Peter Martyr, attributable Alunno. The third pillar, St. Peter Martyr of St. Dominic and a holy bishop, a follower of Thomas Bartholomew. On the far wall of the nave, at the altar, St. Catherine of Alexandria, Umbrian painter of the early sixteenth century and St. Jerome crowned by angels, attributed to the Mezzastris. To the left of the main altar is the Chapel of the Holy Family, with mural in tempera Ugo Scaramucci (1924). The altar, stone basilica-style, was erected in 1942. In sacristy are restored frescoes depicting Madonna of Loreto and San Rocco and Sant’Antonio abate, of unknown Foligno the beginning of the XVI century and a painting with figure of prelate of the seventeenth century. Worthy of mention is the kiosk outside, To the right of, with the depiction of the Virgin crowned by two angels (sinopia) assigned to Pierantonio Mezzastris.