The cemetery church of Ragoli and the Baschenis frescoes.
Located at the exit of the village of Ragoli, along the road that leads to Preore, the Romanesque church, documented from 1249, originally had a curative function for the inhabitants of the villages of Ragoli, Preore and Montagne. The building still preserves precious frescoes created in the years between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries by Christopher II, helped by his son Simon II, belonging to the Baschenis frescoing dynasty, who decorated numerous buildings in the south-western Trentino area between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries. On the hut façade there are portions of the fresco of the Annunciation, while inside is the cross vault to be adorned with a cycle of paintings depicting the blessing Christ Pantocrator, surrounded by the Evangelists and the fathers of the church, all enriched by decorative bands with prongs, grotesque eagles, stylized flowers and three pairs of musical angels. The church also houses the pieces of an important wooden altar built in the third decade of the 1500s by Maffeo and Andrea Olivieri.
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The precious Baschenis frescoes.
