Skip to content

This page was translated automatically and we are reviewing it. Read the original in Italian

Valli del Noce
EN
Sign in

Chiesa di Sant'Agata, Commezzadura

Val di Sole

Churches and sanctuaries · Commezzadura · Val di Sole

Chiesa di Sant'Agata

A fresco left half finished, completed by a Baschenis two generations later.

Chiesa di Sant'Agata
Syrio · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

First mentioned in 1244, it was partly rebuilt and enlarged in Gothic forms in the second half of the fifteenth century. The new presbytery was frescoed by Giovanni and Battista Baschenis, who however broke off the work without completing it.

What followed is rare to find: between 1516 and 1518 Simone Baschenis, of the same family of painters from Bergamo, took up and finished the work the two had left half done. The church was consecrated in 1530.

Between 1613 and 1617 the frescoes were almost certainly whitewashed, and they came back to light only with the restorations begun in the 1980s. The most recent works led to the discovery of a wall painting of the 13th century.

First mention
1244
Dedicated to
Sant'Agata
Protection
Italian cultural heritage site

Today in the valleys

Just a moment...

Gipthe bearded vulture of Valli del Noce

Hi, I am Gip. I am a bearded vulture: my species had vanished from the Alps in the 1930s, and the first one born in Trentino in at least a hundred and fifty years took flight from Val di Rabbi this past 16 July.

Ask me about places, the valleys or the people who work here. I answer with what is in our pages: if I do not know something, I will tell you.

Gip is an assistant based on artificial intelligence. It answers only with the verified facts in our pages. Your questions are processed by Anthropic, in the United States, and we do not keep them: do not write personal data. How we handle them.