Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie

Santa Maria delle Grazie in Camerino's Le Mosse quarter is a small seventeenth-century church with a rectangular interior. Frescoes by Emilio Savonanzi give its presbytery a more elaborate artistic character than the modest exterior suggests.

Why it matters

The church preserves a neighbourhood setting for sacred art outside the city's monumental core. Its simple plan and later additions show the development of a relatively small place of worship.

What to notice

Side altars accompany the nave, and a balustrade separates the presbytery. Corinthian columns frame the altar setting. Savonanzi's frescoes depict the Annunciation, the Flight into Egypt and the passing of the Virgin. A two-arched bell gable rises near the rear of the building.

Context and history

Construction belongs to the period between about 1600 and 1621. An inscription on a Savini-funded side altar records the latter year. The presbytery paintings belong to the first half of the seventeenth century, while a Saint Jerome altarpiece is dated 1671. Later additions included the portico and sacristy block.