Interior of the Cathedral of San Rufino (Assisi, Italy)

 interior, interesting place

The interior has three naves divided by pillars , with a basilica plan . Its present appearance dates back to the renewal in 1571 by Galeazzo Alessi , sometimes just above the traces of the early church , including the remains of a dome.
Following restoration the side altars were removed , and discover , on the left wall sections of a Roman wall . Currently , there are ten in the cathedral , alternating with statues of prophets of Agostino Silva 1672. The first altar on the right shows the banner of St. Joseph, by John Berto , and soon after there is the Chapel of the Sacrament of Giacomo Giorgetti (1663 , decorated with paintings and frescoes that make it more unified Baroque work of Assisi on the front door is a Sacrifice of Elijah by Giovanni Andrea Carlone , author of paintings on canvas (right Hagar in the desert, in prayer David , Elijah and the Angel , Nativity, Supper at Emmaus , Resurrection, and the Tobias ' angel , David receives clothes Alchimelech and Sacrifice of Isaac.
Chapel of the Sacrament .
Altar.
The frescoes in the apse and the vault are his , Giacomo Giorgetti (1663) and Giovanni Antonio Grecolini (XVIII century). On the opposite the chapel is a Last Supper by Fra ' Emanuele da Como , while the organ on the wooden choir carved gilt seventeenth century. On the counter there are two statues next to the central portal : San Francesco di Giovanni Dupre (1882 ) and Santa Chiara Amalia Dupre (1888) .
The door next to the chapel door in a Romanesque portal on the right side , coeval with those of the facade. Below the altar of , with polychrome statue in 1672 , the altar of St. Francis, with stucco of the cardinal virtues of Augustine Silva and a table with Christ and the saints in glory by Dono Doni (1550) .
The other side of the aisle houses the altar of Saint Cajetan of Thiene, with a painting by Francesco Refini , the altar of the Crucifix, with stucco Silva , the altar of St. Emidio , designed by Giacomo Giorgetti and with the canvas of the Trinity, the Virgin Mary and the saints who intercede for Francis of Assisi Appiani (1752 ) , and the altar of Our Lady of Consolation , with a Madonna with Child and Saints of the eighteenth century.
In the south aisle there is the ancient baptismal font , where they were baptized, St. Francis , St. Clare , St. Gabriel of the Sorrowful and perhaps , in 1197 , Frederick II of Swabia. The fund was decorated in 1882.
The south transept houses the altar of San Vitale, the Deposition from the Cross by Dono Doni ( 1563) . In the left arm the altar of San Rufino d'Arce , with a Crucifixion always Doni .
In the apse is a sixteenth-century carved wooden choir of Piergiacomo da Sanseverino (1520) , with the largest organ in the middle of the nineteenth century. Under the altar are the remains of St. Rufino in Assisi.
Previously these were placed in a Roman sarcophagus carved, still visible in the crypt. The latter was obtained with the changes made to the previous building in the eleventh century by Bishop Hugh and corresponds to the sanctuary of the ancient pre-existing basilica , made ​​visible in the foundations of the restorations carried out after the earthquake of 1997. It is accessible by a staircase , adjacent to the baptistery , through the new Diocesan Museum .
The sacristy , which is accessed from the right side of the apse , contains some works of art that blesses St. Francis Assisi , painting by Cesare Sermei and other paintings by the same Sermei , Jerome Marinelli , Giacomo Giorgetti Martin Knoeller and Baldassarre Orsini .
The sacristy is accessed through a small door to the left in an underground chapel called St. Francis.
SOURCE: it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattedrale_di_San_Rufino