Church of Santa Maria della Rocca - XIV century - Offida village, Ascoli Piceno district - Italy
the Church of Santa Maria della Rocca is a fourteenth century church in the western border of the village of Offida. Surrounded on three sides by cliffs that open on two valleys, the great construction in brick in the Romanesque-gothic style you must master Albertino that erected in 1330 on pre-existing small benedictine church. The facade, turned toward the outside of the inhabited area is divided by pilaster strips and on the opposite side there are three high polygonal apses with pilasters of white stone, single lancet windows and gothic arches. On the central apse opens a gothic portal that introduces in the crypt (a 3 then 5 naves), as wide as the upper church and adorned with frescoes attributed to the Maestro di Offida. The upper church, with a single hall according to the tradition of the mendicant orders, preserves frescoes of the Giottesque influence, still attributed to the Maestro di Offida (those of the transept are dated from an inscription to 1367) and other attributed to Giacomo da Campli (XV century). Part of the original decorations are lost even for the deterioration of the cover. In the side altars, erected in different eras, it should be noted that dedicated to Sant'Andrea, of the XV century, with blade frescoed on the wall by Vincenzo Pagani.
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Location: OFFIDA, Ascoli Piceno district - Marche region - Italy, Europe
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