{"id":310026,"date":"2024-08-09T21:53:42","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T19:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/what-to-see\/avigliana-church-of-san-giovanni-at-avigliana-2\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T12:47:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T11:47:16","slug":"avigliana-church-of-san-giovanni","status":"publish","type":"what-to-see","link":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/what-to-see\/avigliana-church-of-san-giovanni\/","title":{"rendered":"Church of San Giovanni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of San Giovanni in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/village\/avigliana\/\"><strong>Avigliana<\/strong><\/a> was built as a parish church in 1324, replacing the older Church of San Pietro. The fa\u00e7ade features a Gothic stone portal surmounted by a frescoed lunette depicting the Virgin Mary enthroned with the Child, painted in 1895 by Enrico Reffo during the restoration of the fa\u00e7ade.<\/p>\n<p>The atrium preserves important pictorial evidence, including the fresco of the Madonna and Child between Saints Christopher, John the Baptist and Anthony the Abbot, attributed to an anonymous follower of Giacomo Jaquerio, known as the Master of San Vito in Piossasco. The same space also contains several scenes attributed to the Pinerolo painters Serra, including the Visitation, a Holy Knight, the Virgin with St. Bernardino, Saints Mary Magdalene and Catherine, and the Martyrdom of St. Agatha.<\/p>\n<p>All\u2019interno della chiesa sono conservate numerose opere pittoriche di grande valore: la tavola di Sant\u2019Orsola di Gerolamo Giovenone, la Madonna della Mercede \u2013 detta anche dei Santi Crispino e Crispiniano \u2013 di Defendente Ferrari, oltre al trittico di San Gerolamo, al polittico della Nativit\u00e0 del 1511 e al trittico della Madonna del Consorzio. Dello stesso ambito artistico sono anche le tavole esposte nel presbiterio, raffiguranti i santi Lucia e Nicola, Sebastiano e Rocco, Sant\u2019Antonio e San Cristoforo. Il pulpito ligneo risale al XVI secolo, mentre tra gli arredi barocchi spicca il dipinto dell\u2019Incoronazione della Vergine con il beato Cherubino Testa e santa Caterina d\u2019Alessandria, attribuito alla scuola saviglianese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discover the Church of San Giovanni in Avigliana, a 14th-century Gothic parish church with medieval frescoes and precious works by Giovenone and Defendente Ferrari.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":237023,"template":"","village-conntection":[50423],"what-to-see-region-and-provinces":[76181,76187],"what-to-see-category":[30159],"class_list":["post-310026","what-to-see","type-what-to-see","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","village-conntection-avigliana-it","what-to-see-region-and-provinces-piedmont","what-to-see-region-and-provinces-turin","what-to-see-category-place-of-cult"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see\/310026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/what-to-see"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see\/310026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"village-conntection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/village-conntection?post=310026"},{"taxonomy":"what-to-see-region-and-provinces","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see-region-and-provinces?post=310026"},{"taxonomy":"what-to-see-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see-category?post=310026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}