Church of Saint Agostino

It contains the wonderful sculptures that were housed in the Cathedral of Orvieto. Worth a visit.

Former church, now dedicated to welcoming the beautiful statues dedicated to the saints that once could be found inside the Cathedral. The stars represent the beauty of the statues as opposed to the former church which has not much to say.

The Museum of Sant'Agostino, set up in the homonymous former Augustinian complex of the second half of the 13th century, orders sculptures, stone finds, paintings on canvas and detached frescoes, as well as a section of ceramics, dating from the 10th to the 18th century. It offers a complete path through Genoese and Ligurian art, with works of absolute importance (Giovanni Pisano, Luca Cambiaso, Valerio Castello, Filippo Parodi, Pierre Puget, among others), singular wealth on the medieval period and particular regarding the evolution of historic city center with evidence from civil or religious buildings that have been destroyed or radically reclaimed over the centuries. Furthermore, located in the central area of ​​Sarzano, the Museum offers itself as a space to host and stimulate activities in the neighborhood and in the historic center in general. The history of the former Church of Sant'Agostino begins in this historical period, when the Augustinian friars undertook the construction of a work that was supposed to be grandiose, but which never came to completion. On the right of via Malabranca, in one of the oldest districts of Orvieto, there is a square with a particular aspect, dominated at the bottom by a structure, now used as a restaurant, which is recognized as unfinished, but whose daring constructive and the enormous proportions of what must have been the original project. The construction of the Church of Sant'Agostino began in 1264 on the pre-existing church of Santa Lucia belonging to the Premonstratensians of the Abbey of Santi Severo e Martirio and purchased by the Augustinians in order to build their grandiose monastic complex which, according to the intentions, was to occupy almost the entire square in front with a length of about 48 meters. Of this structure, never used for worship, only the apse and the last span of the nave were built. This is why subsequently, in the first half of the fourteenth century, the interventions of the order were aimed at the expansion and modernization of the original church of Santa Lucia. The structure of the ancient church is still clearly visible today and includes the apse, with a large mullioned window rebuilt in 1990 for anastylosis, and the first section of the nave characterized by ogive single lancet windows originally interspersed with buttresses then eliminated in the 18th century. The part that constitutes the expansion of the fourteenth century instead has large pointed arches, the last of which, halved, suggests a greater length than that of the current building.