Description

The exterior of the Church of Santa Maria Assunta is in the lower part of town of Legogne, next to the “da capu” gate, slightly rotated compared to the present-day gate.

The entrance door is the work of Buccio da Legogne.

The interior is within a single space and has a trapezoidal plan, underneath a wooden ceiling from the early 1600s ribbed with large cornices with prayers to Mary around the central space, where the canvas of Our Lady of the Assumption has returned to its place (originally there were three ceiling canvases). The brick floor is imbricated. The fresco of the Assumption of the Virgin at the high altar is the only fresco signed and dated by Agostino Carducci (1574); the scene shows a tomb surrounded by the Apostles with St. Paul and St. Peter in the foreground. Above, the Coronation of the Virgin, scenes from the life of the Virgin Mary and of the Passion of Christ.

On the left wall is the Nativity, a fresco with the Prophets David and Isaiah at the sides, also a work by a Carducci from the late 16th century. Next to the door of the bell tower the remains of a stucco altar were found incorporated in the wall (16th cent.).

Interesting fragments that were part of a single 15th-century fresco of the Madonna of Mercy emerge inside the same altar and inside the bell tower; faces of protégés remain on the left and right, while the Madonna is hidden underneath the masonry. This is perhaps one of the finest works by Giovanni Sparapane. To the right of the entrance there is a 16th-century stoup.