Cortona - St Dominics Church

(Local Name: San Domenico) The Church of San Doménico in Cortona, outside the town walls to the south, was originally the church of a Dominican friary to which the famous painter Fra Angélico (Giovanni di Pietro, c. 1400-55) belonged for a time. This aisleless Gothic church was built in the early 15th century, in the plain architectural style favored by the Mendicant Orders, and altered later in the century. The altar has a triptych by Lorenzo Gherini (14th/15th centuries); in the chapel on the right is a "Madonna with Angels and Saints" by Luca Signorelli (15th century) and on the wall of the presbytery an "Assumption" by Bartolomeo della Gatta (15th century).