San Francesco alle Scale
San Francesco alle Scale is a church in Ancona, central Italy.[1]
History
Sited at the top of a staircase leading to the eponymous square, the church was founded in 1323 by the
In 1454, the Dalmatian master
After the Napoleonic occupation the complex was used as a hospital and, from the 1920s, as a Civic Museum. The church was restored and reopened in 1953. The 18th-century bell tower, which had been destroyed by an Allied bombardment in 1944, was rebuilt at the same time.
Description
The main feature of the façade is the portal, designed by Giorgio da Sebenico with an ornate frame featuring twenty heads and, at the sides, two tall pilasters housing four niches with statues of saints. Above the portal is a Gothic lunette with a bas-relief of St. Francis receiving the Stigmata and, above it, a shell supporting a hexagonal baldachin. The portal leads to a staircase which was rebuilt in the 1920s.
The interior has a single nave and is in 18th-century style. It houses a Baptism of Christ by
References
- ISBN 978-0-393-32888-2. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
... of San Francesco alle Scale, sometimes called Santa Maria Maggiore; the lower part of the façade is cream plaster, surmounted by ochre-coloured brick, framing an outstanding Venetian-Gothic portal (1447) by Giorgio Orsini.
External links
Media related to San Francesco alle Scale (Ancona) at Wikimedia Commons
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