Santa Maria Assunta is a

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-style,

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parish church located in the town of Arrone,

province of Terni The province of Terni () is the smaller of the two provinces in the Umbria region of Italy, comprising one-third of both the area and population of the region. Its capital is the city of Terni. The province came into being in 1927, when it was ca ...

, region of

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, Italy.

History

The church has a sober 15th-century white marble facade. The interior, including the apse. The interior contains various frescoes, including the following works:Umbria
Guida D'Italia, (1999) page 460. *''Madonna del Rosario'' (1609) attributed to

Giuseppe Bastiani Giuseppe Bastiani (active in 1594) was an Italian painter active in the Renaissance period, mainly in his hometown of Macerata Macerata () is a city and ''comune'' in central Italy, the county seat of the province of Macerata in the Marche reg ...

*''Madonna and Child with Saints Peter and John the Evangelist'', attributed to Francesco Cozza *''Annunciation'', ''Adoration by Shepherds'', ''Dormition of the Virgin'', and ''Coronation of Virgin'' (1516) by

Vincenzo Tamagni Vincenzo Tamagni (1492 – ) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. Born in San Gimignano, he became an apprentice first with il Sodoma at Monte Oliveto Maggiore, and then worked in the Vatican Loggie under Raphael in Rome (1512-1516) ...

and

Giovanni di Pietro da Spoleto Lo Spagna (died ''c.'' 1529), "the Spaniard" in Italian, was a painter of the Renaissance, active in central Italy. His name was Giovanni di Pietro, but he was known as ''Lo Spagna'' because he was of Spanish heritage. He was an important assist ...

*Frescoes in the apse (1544) by

Jacopo Siculo Jacopo Siculo, also known as Giacomo Santoro da Giuliana (1490-1544) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, mainly active in Umbria. Biography He was born in Sicily. By 1519, he was in Rome working under Baldassarre Peruzzi. He likely abando ...

*The main altar

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by the Maestro di Arrone (1487) was stolen in 1971.

References

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