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1)
Spedale di Santa Maria del Buon Gesù
With its beautiful façade facing the cathedral, the building hosting the exhibition is one of the most important testimonies of late Gothic architecture in the Marche Region (1456).
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Cathedral of Saint Venanzio
Rebuilt in its current form at the beginning of the 17th century, this cathedral that dates back to the 12th century is the city of Fabriano’s artistic jewellery box. It has the fragrance of great 14th century Florentine art with the chapel of San Lorenzo, frescoed by Allegretto Nuzi, an artist born in Fabriano but trained n Florence in the mid 14th century by Bernardino Daddi.
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Palazzo del Podestà and Fontana Maggiore
With the allegorical representation of the Wheel of Fortune dominating the scene next to the two warriors in the great vault, the Palace (1255) is the strongest symbol of the city’s identity. The Fontana Maggiore (1285) was created a little later in the centre of this wonderful square by Jacopo di Grondalo from Perugia, using as a model the fountain built in the Umbrian capital by Nicola and Giovanni Pisano.
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The Gentile Theatre
Rebuilt after a fire in 1884 by the architect Petrini, the new theatre has a neoclassical façade and is characterised by four rows of boxes and a balcony gallery. Considered one of the most beautiful and elegant theatres in the Marche Region, it is famous and appreciated for its excellent acoustics.
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Oratorio della Carità
At the end of the 16th Century, the oratory was decorated with a wonderful frescoed cycle portraying the works of Spiritual and Corporal Mercy created by Filippo Bellini, the mannerist artist from Urbino. The Gothic stone portal comes from the former Monastery of Saint Anthony outside the Walls.
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The Mazzolini Giuseppucci Pharmacy Museum
Set on the Corso della Repubblica (at number 33/A), this Museum is dedicated to one of the most important historical pharmacies in Italy. The extraordinary wooden furnishings created in 1896 by Adolfo Ricci from Perugia, represent the most famous scientists and the greatest discoveries of the 19th Century. The Museum is the centre for man didactic activities linked to divulging the history of science.
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Church of Saint Mary Magdalene
In this Church (14th Century and rebuilt in the 19th Century) there are the frescoes by the Maestro from Campodonico, who trained with one of Giotto’s most gifted pupils, Puccio Capanna from Assisi. The unknown artist interprets art that with colour portrays the emotions of intense traditional religiosity.
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Church of San Domenico and the Bruno Molajoli Picture Gallery
The church (sec. XIV), originally dedicated to Santa Lucia Novella and rebuilt after the 1741 earthquake, has Gothic chapels and the sacristy magnificently decorated by Allegretto Nuzi and his school (second half of the 14th Century). Throughout the exhibition one will be able to visit, inside the Church of San Domenico, a temporary mounting of the Municipal Picture Gallery dedicated to Bruno Molajoli, the art historian born in Fabriano. This Picture Gallery, with one of the most important collection of Medieval Art in the Marche Region, boasts precious paintings on wood and frescoes by Allegretto Nuzi, who taught Staffolo, Antonio da Fabriano, Ottaviano Nelli, Orazio Gentileschi, Andrea Boscoli and others. There is also an original and rich collection of 14th Century wooden sculptures by the Maestro dei Magi from Fabriano and by the Maestro dei Beati Becchetti, in addition to a series of Flemish tapestries datable between the 16th and 17th Centuries
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Museum of paper and watermarks in the San Domenico Complex
The Museum of Paper and Watermarks is one the most important cultural realities in the Marche Region. One of most significant sectors is the faithful reproduction, in a large 14th century room, of a medieval fulling-mill with which paper was handmade as demonstrated by workers using the traditional method dating back more than seven centuries. The didactic tour illustrates the history of paper manufacturing in Fabriano since the 13th Century with the equipment and documents of the times, precious examples of both modern and antique precious watermarks for the period between the 13th Century and modern times. The Museum is situated inside the beautiful Complex of the former convent of San Domenico (14th – 15th Centuries), in which one can admire two significant 15th Century cloisters and indoors also the precious decoration of the Capital Hall painted in about 1480 by Antonio da Fabriano, for the iconography of which the artist was inspired by the decorations for the Dominican Convent of San Marco in Florence created by Beato Angelico.
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Marian Shrine by Ottaviano Nelli
Along the road leading to the Church of San Nicolò, near the former church of Santa Maria in Piangato (15th Century), one can admire the fresco portraying the Maestà, San Bartolomeo and San Filippo Benizio ascribable to the early work of Ottaviano Nelli, a contemporary of Gentile da Fabriano and an artist who was active in Central Italy.
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Collegiate Church of San Nicolò
Of this medieval church (12th Century, rebuilt in the 17th Century) there is still a fresco by Francescuccio di Cecco Ghissi (second half of the 14th Century) and an imposing wooden 14th Century sculpture portraying San Nicola from Bari, by the Maestro dei Magi of Fabriano. Together with the Cathedral, this church boasts the richest and most precious collection of Mannerist and Baroque canvases.
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Church of Saint Augustine
The original church, dedicated to Santa Maria Nova, dates back to the 14th Century and was rebuilt during the 18th Century. The frescoes in the to Gothic chapels to the sides of the choir have been attributed to an excellent artist from Giotto’s school in Rimini, the maestro di Sant’Emiliano. It is above all in the description of the miracles characterising scenes from the life of Saint Augustine tat one can observe the Church’s wish to re-conquer the rebellious population of this Ghibelline city in the course of the 14th Century.
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