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29: 221:, with the agreement of the nuns of Accon, transferred the parish to the abandoned thirteenth century church of Santa Maria la Nova. Ensuing eighteenth-century additions included the 1701 551: 359: 322:), with seventeenth-century frescoes. In 1610, the Hospital incorporated part of the façade of San Giovanni Battista; some sculptural elements, including two elephants and a 281: 206:
establishment (until 1212). In 1229, they began work on a new church as a replacement for this chapel; this was completed in 1236. In 1480, at the time of the
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sequence); for this, a dummy bell tower was constructed, while the church exterior was covered in false walls to protect the stonework and to hide "numerous
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Da Accon a Matera: Santa Maria la Nova, un monastero femminile tra dimensione mediterranea e identità urbana (XIII–XVI secolo)
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above depicting Santa Maria la Nova, while in the Chapel of the Holy Sacrament there is a painting on canvas by local artist
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and 1735 Cappella del Santissimo Sacramento. At the end of the century, due to the deterioration of the three
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South façade, opening onto Piazza San Giovanni Battista; to the west, l'ex Ospidale San Rocco
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was lined with a series of arches, though leaving visible the original thirteenth-century
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In 1695, due to the poor state of the nearby parish church of San Giovanni Battista in
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and, in 1220, they were granted the chapel of Santa Maria la Nova, previously a
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Museo nazionale d'arte medievale e moderna della Basilicata
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Filming took place in Piazza San Giovanni Battista for the
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church dating to the 13th and 18th centuries, located in
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13th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy
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The church opens onto and gives its name to a small
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40°40′04″N 16°36′29″E / 40.667722°N 16.607989°E / 40.667722; 16.607989
Matera
Basilicata
Italy
Dedication
Saint John the Baptist
Mary
Consecrated
Roman Catholic
Matera
region
Basilicata
Saint John the Baptist
the Duomo
Apulian Romanesque
it
Accon
Kingdom of Acre
Benedictine
Ottoman invasion of Otranto
Sasso Barisano
Acerenza
sacristy
domes
transept
vaults
façade
portal
the Baptist

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