This choir,which the nuns called “chiesa nostra dentro" (our church within), was enclosed in 1449, when a wall built was built across the last bay of the church. It is entered by the small door to the left of what then became the back wall of the tribune (as described in the page on the interior of the church).
The choir escaped the remodelling of 1602-7 and therefore preserves some of its original votive frescoes.
Frescoes (14th century)
These frescoes on the left wall include:
✴three votive frescoes with kneeling nuns (illustrated above), which depict:
•St Jerome;
•St Michael Archangel; and
•the baptism of Christ; and
Assumption of the Virgin (14th century)
There is a copy (1983) of the central figures of this fresco in a tabernacle on the exterior of the church.
Santa Maria di Monteluce: Main page Church Nuns’ choir Art from church.
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