Santa Maria Maddalena, Esanatoglia

Last updated January 17, 2023

Santa Maria Maddalena is a Baroque-style Roman Catholic church located on Via Bartocci in the town of Esanatoglia, province of Macerata, in the region of Marche, Italy.

History

A church was present at the site prior to the 16th century, known as Santa Maria Maddalena de Insula, and linked to a Benedictine order nunnery under the rule of the Abbey of Sant'Angelo infra Ostia. The church was rebuilt in the late 17th-century in an oval layout. While the exterior façade is plain, the portal in white stone is elegant. The main altarpiece is made of gilded wood, and houses a 17th-century altarpiece depicting a Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saints John the Evangelist, Mary Magdalen, Clare, and Francis. The wooden choir loft, on the counterfacade, has a twelve panels with paintings depicting Saints and landscapes. In the early 19th century, the convent was suppressed and it became a nursing home. The convent has a fresco cycle (early 15th-century) attributed to Ottaviano Nelli.^[1]

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References

↑ TurismoMacerata, Portal of the province of Macerata, by Fondazione Carima (Cassa di Risparmio della Provincia di Macerata) in alliance with local authorities.

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[1] TurismoMacerata, Portal of the province of Macerata, by Fondazione Carima (Cassa di Risparmio della Provincia di Macerata) in alliance with local authorities.

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