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The Interior of the Pieve S. Maria Vecchia:

A Collection of Beautiful or Interesting Things​1

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Leading off the frescoes along the S wall of this single-nave church,
a martyrdom of St. Sebastian (14c).

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. . . followed by a Madonna del Rosario (17c). . . .

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. . . and a Pope with a halo,
dated 1476, bottom left: see the close‑up.

A 17c canvas of the Virgin of Carmel also apparently hangs on the S wall; I'm not big on the 17c, and don't so much as remember seeing it.

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Along the N side of the church,
another Madonna del Rosario — 15c —
with SS. Dominic and Peter Martyr . . .

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. . . then a niche with a 15c wooden statue of the Assumption of the Virgin, stolen in 1982: I don't know whether what we see here is the original, or, it seems more likely to me, a copy. Theft from churches is a very serious problem thruout Italy.

The saints on either side of the niche, both of them monks, have resisted identification.

But the best item in the church, to my mind at least, deserves its own (thoroughly pagan) page. It's in the niche at the end of the N aisle:

[image ALT: A stone pillar, about 70 cm tall, of square cross-section, surrounded by four smaller stones, three of which are fragments of medieval colonnettes and the fourth is of uncertain character; the lapidary group sits on a terracotta floor against a wall of small mortared stone blocks, in the church of S. Maria Vecchia in Ficulle, Umbria (central Italy).]

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1 For a general view of the interior, in case you missed it, see the Churches of Ficulle orientation page.

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