Church of Santa Maria di Fossale
in Gemona
Church of Santa Maria di Fossale in Gemona
Near Gemona Cathedral, on Via dei Conti, the street parallel to Via Bini, stands theChurch of the Holy Name of Mary - Chiesa del Santo Nome di Maria, also known as Santa Maria di Fossale– rebuilt in 1993. The museum visit includes this church, containing two precious gilded and painted portal-type wooden altars, most likely byGerolamo Comuzzoand his workshop, with altarpieces by painterMelchiorre Widmar dating back to the 1660s or ’70s. The altarpiece on the main altar frames a prodigious fresco of the Virgin nursing the Christ child, which was seen to weep in the year 1655.
The artwork of greatest interest in the church is definitely a noble Thirteenth-century crucifixof painted wood, formerly in the church of San Giovanni, placed against the background of the Virgin in a swoon and the suffering, the work of early eighteenth-century Gemonese artistGiovanni Battista Tiani.
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