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THE PAINTING OF THE CHURCH OF ST ANNE Metterza SAN GREGORIO XV century, the Shrine of Sant'Anna

represents the Madonna and Child with St. Anne of St. John the Evangelist and Saint Anthony Abbot at top probably God the Father blessing between clouds and cherubs.
The fresco is located on the left wall, in symmetry with the fragment depicting Saint Catherine of Alexandria.
The composition is the theme of St Anne Metterza , but the face St Anne is mutilated, like that of St. Anthony and a large part of the shell of the painting, where, in addition to some heads of cherubs, drapery are distinguished from two other figures.
The remaining area painting refers to the environment of the last of the Umbro-Roman 400. interesting and accurate are the pillars of the throne on the grotesque expression of an update of the Ancient culture that develops in Rome since 1470. As a reminder
pinturicchiesco are putti, while scope antoniazzesco the figures of St. John and Christ died below, albeit with elongated faces and a loss of volume. Obvious repainting of indeterminable age.
The particular taste of the painting reflects the fervor that was moving in that period thanks to artists such as Lorenzo da Viterbo and Anthony Massaro said Pastura who worked largely in the province. In this last bring up the spread of taste Umbro besetting the painting.
The artist collaborator Pinturicchio in Rome, in the decoration of the Borgia apartments in the Vatican, in the capital has the ability to deepen their knowledge of Antoniazzo of Aquila.
For then in 1497 in Orvieto, to complete the decoration of the Cathedral of Orvieto .

At the center of the main players merge into a single mass displacement, which is connected through the gestures, the hands of St. Anne on the shoulders of the Virgin and the hands of the Virgin supporting the child, and finally in the hands Baby goldfinch.
Communicative the attitude of the latter, which have the look and the gesture is aimed directly to the faithful, contrasting very strongly with the laying of the blank closed tilting his head.
curve also followed by the child's head. As in a good state of preservation we can not even see the structure of the throne. Which is structured as a niche corners strongly shortened alternating the yellow frame with the green color of the back, in the presence of random colors, in this case refers to the decoration of the Borgia Apartments , as well as the presence of grotesque colored I refer specifically to the visitation of Virgin Borgia apartments in the Vatican museums decorated by Pinturicchio. The whole decoration of the church bears the date of 1494 shown below sull'affresco depicting Santa Caterina d'Alessandria. In conjunction with the construction of the fort of St. Gallen and its decoration. Perhaps a skilled the following?