Key to Umbria: Orvieto
 


Santo Stefano (13th century)


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This Romanesque church has a lovely campanile and a tiny pensile apse that overhangs Via Santo Stefano. 

Interior 


The church has reopened after its recent restoration.  A number of fresco fragments have been restored as far as possible.

Madonna and Child (15th century )

This much-venerated altarpiece on the altar on the left wall altar on the left wall is hung with votive offerings.  It is attributed to Pietro di Nicola Baroni





Frescoes on the Back Wall (15th century)

   
   

These comprise:

  1. two frescoes to the left:

  2. the Crucifixion with the Virgin and St John the Evangelist; and

  3. Christ in judgement with SS Antony Abbot and John the Baptist (below);

  4. St Stephen enthroned, in the pensile apse, high on the altar wall; and

  5. two frescoes to the right:

  6. the Crucifixion with the Virgin and SS John the Evangelist and Jerome; and

  7. the elect in Heaven (below).

  8. The inscription between these last two frescoes, which originally gave the date, is now only partially legible.

Frescoes on the Right Wall (15th century ?)

These comprise:


  1. part of a Crucifixion with the Virgin and SS Michael and George, with another fresco of a bishop saint to the left (in the 2nd bay); and

      

  1. two frescoes in the 1st bay:

  2. the Risen Christ; and

  3. part of a Crucifixion with the Virgin and a female martyr saint (who has been stabbed in the neck and is burning alive).

  4. The latter is attributed to Pietro di Nicola Baroni.


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