Angels wearing patterned gowns support a praying female saint. Fresco, painted in the early 1500s. Inside the Chiesa di Santa Maria Maggiore, at Sirmione, Lombardy, Italy. The church, consecrated in 1512, is also known as Santa Maria della Neve.
Sirmione, Lombardy, Italy: angelic support ... this praying female saint flanked by angels wearing patterned gowns stands above a doorway in the Chiesa di Santa Maria Maggiore, the parish church of this historic town built on the Sirmio peninsula jutting into Lake Garda. Santa Maria Maggiore was begun in the late 1400s to replace the ancient church of San Martino in Castro, founded in the 7th century AD, with some remnants of that earlier building re-used in its construction. It was consecrated in 1512, and the Lombardic frescoes on its interior walls mostly date from that era. The church is also known as Santa Maria della Neve (St Mary of the Snow), a reference to a miraculous snowfall said to have occurred on the Esquiline hill in Rome on 5 August AD 352. Other ancient Roman connections include the northernmost column in the arched portico on the west front, a milestone dedicated to the 4th century emperor, Julian the Apostate, and, in the churchyard, a memorial stone dedicated to the Roman god Jupiter.
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Location: Sirmione, Lombardy, Italy.
Photo credit: © Terence Kerr / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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