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The ancient church, which has very elegant, refined and luminous walls on the inside and a beautiful crypt, bears elements that represent the various artistic currents and different periods in which various interventions took place within it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gothic art<\/strong> can be seen in the structure, which recalls the churches of the mendicant orders, with its single nave and an apse with a square cross. Traces of the <strong>Baroque style<\/strong> found in the interior decorations, in the stuccos and in the altars of the side chapels instead date back to the period from the 17<sup>th<\/sup> to the 18<sup>th<\/sup> century. The present museum also has numerous paintings, most of them in the <strong>Mannerist style<\/strong>. There were many artists who worked on pieces to decorate the church, including <em>Antonio Circignani<\/em> known as <strong>Il Pomarancio<\/strong>, <em>Salvio Savini<\/em> and <em>Alessandro Brunelli<\/em>, whose paintings are displayed in the side altars, the <em>Cremoni<\/em> brothers, who created numerous decorations, and <em>Pietro Vannucci<\/em>, a.k.a. <strong>Perugino<\/strong>. He created frescoes dating back to 1517, although only traces of the \u201c<em>Compianto sul Cristo morto<\/em>\u201d and the \u201c<em>Deposizione dalla Croce<\/em>\u201d remain. These works are found in the ancient <strong>chapel<\/strong> dedicated to the <em>Madonna della Stella<\/em> although they remained hidden inside a cavity until 1834, when they were brought to light by the German painter and art historian <em>Johann Anton Ramboux<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>To complete the church, a bell tower was built 1834 by the neoclassical architect <em>Giovanni Santini.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are an art and history lover and want to delve deeper into Citt\u00e0 della Pieve\u2019s past, you can\u2019t miss the Museo Civico-Diocesano, located just outside Porta Romana. It stands in what was originally the Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Servi, built in the second half of the 13th century. 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