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The façade of S. Maria Laurentia: 13c.
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The door itself is elegant and well-proportioned: a rounded arch, two barely receding archivolts, some minimal capitals and a bit of toothed ornament; good rural Romanesque.
The main decorative item, however, is much less successful. Into the space over the door — not really a tympanum, but a blank lunette — has been inset a very primitive carving of Mary breastfeeding her Baby, captioned with a very easy inscription:
AVE M GRA PLENA D9 T
Ave Maria gratia plena! Dominus tecum.
— not so much an inscription as a salutation, and thus appropriately placed over the doors of Marian churches: see for example, in a much more sophisticated style,
the church of S. Maria at Ponte
in another part of Umbria.
This door is as open as I've ever seen it: I need to stay in Bevagna a few days, lie in ambush for a time free of cars in which I can sneak a better photo, and rustle up a key.
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