San Francesco, Potenza Picena
San Francesco is a
History
Tradition holds that this at this site, near a church dedicated to San
The church, while called San Francesco, is actually dedicated to St Nicholas, represented in the painting above the altar. Papal documents from the first half of the thirteenth century assert the assignment of the property to the
An inventory, compiled in 1729 (now in the Archives of Fermo diocese), takes note that the church had two naves and six altars, including the main altar. Among the paintings in the church was an polyptych altarpiece (1493), now dispersed, by
The lateral altars have paintings depicting the "Miracle of St Joseph of Cupertino", a "Nativity" and the "Transit of Sant'Andrea Avellino". The two painted canvases, to the sides of the main altar-piece, depict the Papal approval of the Franciscan rule.
The monastery, largely demolished in the second half of the 19th century, in 2016 houses a civic Library, the Historical Archives and the Civic Art Gallery.[1]
References
- ^ Province of Macerata, Taken from the tourism section of Potenza Picena site.