Pieve di San Giovanni Battista al Piano

History & Culture

Lerma

Sacred Sites

strada Comunale del Cimitero - 15070 Lerma (AL)
c/o Cimitero comunale
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San Giovanni has a simple gabled form which retains the original Romanesque characteristics and a spatial layout with unique connotations: the unknown builder designed the apse using the whole depth of the walls, giving the building a modest exterior, which belies the size of the interior. The facade has a fresco of San Cristoforo dating from 1512 and inside there are a series of figures of the Saints; on the left wall there are 16 paintings depicting the Story of the Passion of Christ. The vault in the apse has a Christ in an Aureola with symbols of the Tetramorph, whilst inside the triumphal arch are twelve figures of Prophets and Sibyls. All these frescoes date from the same period, this being the first quarter of the 16th century and all attributable to the same artist, probably from the Lombard school.