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The cloister itself dates to the 13th century; the wall-paintings (I'm not sure that they're actually frescoes) are much later, 17c to even early 19c. The lunettes depict the martyrdoms of some of the greater saints, while depictions of a curious medley of saints, blesseds and divines, mostly Augustinian theologians, decorate the squinches and the spaces over the interior columns of the cloister. Among many others, Tommaso da Villanova and Nicola di Tolentino are represented, but also Pope St. Agatho (d. 681), and the 15c cardinal Alessandro Oliva of Sassoferrato: contemplation in this cloister was clearly meant to take an intellectual turn.
In this very schematic and, alas, not completely accurate clickmap of the cloister, orange represents horizontal and blue represents vertical surfaces; the dots open photographs in another window. |
That small rectangle at the bottom of the plan is an attractive marble bench, probably of the 16c:
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