Chapel

FRESCO

Dimas

Just entered in the Basilica, it it is opened on the political left the hat of the proposition or of the Holy Pietro and Paolo. This part is the most ancient of the church; a rectangular construction of mt 5,50 x 4,20 with a greatest height of mt 5,90 in the highest point of the time. It recounts a legend that the building is been built reshaping a presistente temple dedicated to the goddess Diana. In occasion of the you restore of 1855 it was mail the following enrolment in Latin: " S. Crispoldo martyr, disciple of S. Pietro, first bishop of Foligno and Bettona, in the first century, year 58, consacrò and dedicated all' Omnipotent God in honor of the Mother of Jesus Proposition in sky, after to have ransomed it to the ancient religion of the goddess Diana, this ancient suburban temple, first in Umbria, that the Holy Pietro and Paolo reached for "to celebrate the Sacred Mysteries and to to be accommodated". The passage of the Holy apostles is supported from legends that see to attribute, what gift of thanks, to the male descendants of the family you Erase, in the homonymous locality ascend mail to 12 Km from Foligno. the power of to cure from the sciatica. Another hypothesis, would want that the hat is been built on the room of a citizen that accommodated the apostles. L' inside of the hat presents two windows to window and a door. On the I splay of the first window you have painted two figures, considerable deteriorated, to left S. Michele Archangel and to the right San Dimas. According to the tradition evangelica, Christ crucified venne between two ladroni. Dimas, here represented leaned to the cross, perfect example of pain is considered and is the patron of the sentenced to death. The painting would be able to be work of Alberto Sotio, a profitable painter on the to expire some XII sec., or of an its follower. The part more interesting is the affresco bizantineggiante I post in fund behind the altar, represents Christ benedicente, to the Greek manner that is to say with everything the hand to meaning of the ring one, between the holy Pietro and Paolo. Under the three figures it is yourselves a false tapestry to orbicoli with lions introduced in you are round. The affresco is place in a niche that murata in the XVII century had been and returned at the light in the you restore of 1855. More before, to political left, a square column and an enrolment remembers that could treat itself of the base of the first altar.