Church of Santa Lucia, Baroque church in Serra San Quirico, Italy
The Church of Santa Lucia is a baroque structure featuring white and gold interior decorations in Serra San Quirico. Its stone interior displays numerous paintings and includes a historic organ.
Documented from 1276, the church passed to the Sylvestrine order in 1289, whose monks opened a hospice that became the Monastery of Santa Lucia. Raised to parish in 1504, it was destroyed by an earthquake in the 17th century and rebuilt from 1650 by the French-born sculptor Leonardo Scaglia, then reconsecrated in 1726. Damaged again in the 1741 earthquake, it was restored and remained a parish until 1986.
The church holds a painting of Saint Lucy between the Madonna and Saint Catherine, attributed to Guido Reni and bought for one hundred scudi by the local judge Flaminio Armezzani, who gave it to the church. In the apse, five canvases of the Martyr of Saint Lucy were designed by Pasqualino Rossi, who painted only the central one himself.
The church stands in the medieval historic centre of Serra San Quirico, in the province of Ancona. The former monastery beside it now houses a museum complex: the historical map library of the Marche, the Ermanno Casoli contemporary art museum, a natural history museum and the offices of the Gola della Rossa e di Frasassi regional park. Allow time to enter these as well as the church.
The organ by Giuseppe Testa shows the craftsmanship of the 17th century and is a notable example of musical instruments from that era. Such historic organs were central to church music during the Baroque period.
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