Cattedrale di S. Venanzio (Fabriano, Ancona, Italy)

The building dates 1046. In the foundations of what will be a wall between the Cloister and the side wall of the Church, in 1435 were buried the bodies of ten Chiavelli's (adults and children) killed inside the church during the Mass of the Ascension (May 26, 1435). The collegiate Church of S. Venanzo was erected in 1728 at Cathedral and in 1963 a Basilica, under Pope Giovanni XXIII. If preserves just the polygonal apse from the ancient shape. Inside has a Latin cross plan with a nave and little side chapels. The San Lorenzo Chapel is frescoed by Allegretto of Nuzio (1360). Other Fabriano's school frescoes of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries can be seen in other rooms of the Church. The Cathedral is an important "museum" of Mannerist and Baroque paintings. Among the most important works are the paintings of Gregorio Preti, Salvator Rosa, Giovanni Francesco Guerrieri, Giuseppe Puglia and others. The famous painter Orazio Gentileschi (Caravaggio school), is the author of the precious "Storie della Passione e della Crocifissione" paintings (1620).