A Renaissance monument in Teggiano
The church and convent stand on an area that housed a female Benedictine monastery in the 14th century.
In the second half of the fifteenth century, when the Benedictines left, the complex was donated to the Order of Friars Minor by Roberto Sanseverino.
The reconstruction of the church probably began at this time. Thanks to an inscription on the main door we know that the church and the portico were almost finished in 1476.
The interior consists of a hall covered with trusses, which is supported by a smaller nave, from which the chapels are accessible. The presbytery has a polygonal shape and is covered by a ribbed umbrella-shaped vault.
A funerary plaque placed inside the church attributes the project to Iacobello de Babino, also the architect from the seat of Teggiano, to his son Giovanni and to the "magister" Angelo de Mingo.
The fresco of the Journey to Calvary, dated 1487 and featuring the Sanseverino coat of arms, and the Mourning of Christ by the sculptor Giovanni da Nola and collaborators, are noteworthy traces of the renaissance.
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Going to Calvary
Painted in 1487 on a large wall of the refectory of the convent of the Pietà, the fresco depicts the Journey to Calvary
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Among the most significant works preserved inside the church of the Pietà in Teggiano, the Mourning over the Dead Christ
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The stone relief depicting the Pietà is placed inside the lunette of the portal, with the date "1476" engraved on the architrave.
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