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Chiesa della Compagnia del Corpus Domini
RAPOLANO TERME
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The church of the Corpus Christi( more properly, church of the Corpus Christi’s Confraternity, also known as Church of the Confraternity) is a sacred building in Rapolano Terme. The front is plain with a simple portal in travertine and lunette-window. On the right wall, a sixteenth-century-fresco, referable to the studio of Girolamo di Benvenuto, with the Madonna with Christ Child and the Saints Giovanni Battista and Girolamo. On the same wall it has been built a frame in “pietra serena” of Renaissance style which held a relief of the Madonna with Christ Child, disappeared for quite a time. The high altar in stucco holds the Last Supper, an eighteenth-century-copy of a painting by Pieter Paul Rubens. Of great importance is the seventeenth-century-altar, decorated on sides with two statues in stucco, the Virgin Mary and the Announcing Angel and, in the middle, the Madonna of the Rosary, by Francesco Bartalini; at the bottom, there are the Fifteenth Mysteries of the Rosary, painted on tablet by the same artist.The church of the Corpus Christi( more properly, church of the Corpus Christi’s Confraternity, also known as Church of the Confraternity) is a sacred building in Rapolano Terme. The front is plain with a simple portal in travertine and lunette-window. On the right wall, a sixteenth-century-fresco, referable to the studio of Girolamo di Benvenuto, with the Madonna with Christ Child and the Saints Giovanni Battista and Girolamo. On the same wall it has been built a frame in “pietra serena” of Renaissance style which held a relief of the Madonna with Christ Child, disappeared for quite a time. The high altar in stucco holds the Last Supper, an eighteenth-century-copy of a painting by Pieter Paul Rubens. Of great importance is the seventeenth-century-altar, decorated on sides with two statues in stucco, the Virgin Mary and the Announcing Angel and, in the middle, the Madonna of the Rosary, by Francesco Bartalini; at the bottom, there are the Fifteenth Mysteries of the Rosary, painted on tablet by the same artist.