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The altar recess you see above occupies maybe a quarter of the interior of the chapel; it's the only altar, and the painting over it is the whole point of the chapel itself, erected in honor of Mary, the Health and Salvation of the Sick — Salus infirmorum in the Latin inscription above her image. Popular devotion has set the painting on a rather nice spray of exuberant Baroque foliage, and encrusted the very surface of the painting with ex‑votos for graces received. The painting itself dates to the 16c, and seems to be by a pupil of Perugino's: Perugino himself was a local man, after all, born in the territory of Città della Pieve, thus very likely no more than 2 or 3 km away.
About the following I have no information, but suspect that, rather than some kind of loose graffiti, it's the mark of the family that staked out this particular pew:
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