The Church, dedicated to St. James, is preceded by the pronaos, with the beautiful portal and the fresco of Florentine Niccolo di Tommaso depicting Giacomo Arcucci offers the Charterhouse to the Madonna, of 1371.
At the Centre of the painting, the Madonna on the throne with child, on the left of the one who looks at St. John the Baptist, with his hand on the shoulder of the Queen of Naples, Giovanna I d’Angio in prayer, side by side with Muretta Valva and Margherita Sanseverino, first and second wife of Arcucci; on the other side, the elder St. James with staff, protects Giacomo Arcucci, supported by his sons, Francesco and Jannuccio, who had his second wife.
The interior is a single nave with three cruising cruises connected by ogival bows.
The semicircular apse may not belong to the primitive Church, whose schematic model, without the apse, is visible in the frescot Niccolo di Tommaso.
The trifora at the bottom of the aisle was opened in the restoration curated by Gino Chierici in 1927, and in the same operation the 14th-century windows on the right side of the nave and the facade rosette were visible, visible only from the outside in order not to compromise the late seventeenth century painting of the counterfaced. To the left of the apse there are chapels of St. James and St. Bruno and the large sacristy.*
*information from a signboard in the church
I read somewhere that these frescoes are made with natural ingredients one of which being egg. Not sure if that is true or not but it’s what I remember.
Interesting…
I have not looked into the substance of the painting materials.
If I could choose, I would definitely like it to be painted all white.
The simpler, the better.
Sometimes I like all white and sometimes I like colour. It depends upon the architecture.
Such a beautiful church. The work which has gone into those paintings, amazing!
They frescoes are fabulous aren’t they