Neighbourhood

The convent and church rise on land given by the Abbot of Santa Scolastica Lando to the St Francis of Assisi, when he went to Subiaco to visit the Sacred Speco.

 

The church has a single nave in the Franciscan style. The centre is dominated by the tríptych of Antoniazzo Romano, dating from October 1467, and representing the Virgin and Child, St Francis and St Anthony of Padua. Behind the triptych there is are valuable choir furnishings, carved in walnut in 1504 by a Franciscan from Rieti.

The last chapel on the left has lovely frescoes by Sodoma, and a splendid Nativity by Pinturicchio. On the opposite side of the church, the third altar has a painting of St Francis receiving the stigmata, attributed to Sebastiano of the Piombo (1485-1547).