Oratorio del Verdiente

Originally his name was “Burdentis” and then it was changed to “Verdiente” or “Verdente”, from an incorrect pronunciation of the local populations. Built in the fourteenth century by Farfensi, it was born as a church-chapel service for the monks, sharecroppers and family members who worked in the fields nearby, and sometimes the church could be used as a shelter d ’emergence in bad weather. The structure of the building, without a tower, is quite simple: a rectangular base with an apse on the east side and the door on the south side. The roof is gabled with tile roofs. The material used for construction is stone Spogna, a limestone light similar to travertine. L ‘interior is illuminated by four small holes and has a beautiful series of frescoes dating from the second half of’ 400; this decoration is due to the vow made by the community Capradosso during the pestilential epidemics of 1457 and 1462-63, which made many victims in the lands of Piceno. Particularly notable survivors made on the walls depict the Virgin and All Saints’ mostly ‘Dominicans’ invoked as protectors during the fury of the disease. We find, over the scene of the Annunciation occupies the wall above the ‘altar, a series of frescoes depicting the Madonna and Child Enthroned Virgin, the Mystical Marriage of St. Catherine, St. Scholastica and St. Vincent Ferrer. The school of painting that painted the chapel in the style of transition between Gothic and Renaissance, is definitely ancestry Tuscan skillful and very detailed in the figures.