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Built in 1471, it houses one of Francesco Caroto’s finest works, dated 1528, depicting the Virgin Mary with the Christ Child in her lap, alongside Saint Anne, Mary’s mother. The sweetness of their faces and their direct gaze towards us seem to draw us into the scene, involving us directly in the scene.
Below them, we glimpse shows Saint Francis receiving the stigmata in the landscape; in the foreground are Saint John the Baptist, holding a long, thin cross made of reeds and pointing to the Messiah; Saint Peter, dressed as a bishop and carrying a large key; Saint Roch, revealing the wound on his leg and carrying a shell and pilgrim’s staff; and Saint Sebastian tied to a tree trunk and pierced by arrows. On the altar on the right, the painting by Antonio Giarola, known as Il Coppa, depicts Verona begging the Holy Trinity for deliverance from the plague of 1630, and on the left, a Deposition from the Cross by Giovanni Battista Barchi dates from 1638. In the centre of the ceiling, we can see a large painting by Giovanni Ceschini depicting the Assumption of Mary. All around are seventeenth-century frescoes depicting saints and evangelists.
