Sant' Agata (11th century)

This was the site of one of the earliest parish churches in Spoleto.  Most of the ancient church has been demolished, but its portico (illustrated above) of  survives in Via Sant' Agata.

A community of Benedictine nuns from San Paolo inter Vineas acquired the church in 1395, when they moved to the adjacent Palazzo Corvi (see Walk I).  They extended the nunnery  above the site of the Roman theatre.   The apse and the surviving part of the cloister, which date to that period, are illustrated. 

The nuns moved to Sant' Ansano in 1855 and the complex was adapted as a women's prison in 1870.  

The complex was adapted to house the Museo Archeologico in 1985. 

Last Supper (1558)

This fresco survives in the ex-refectory, which now forms part of the museum.

[Frescoes (ca. 1300) from Santa Maria inter Angelos

The sinopie of these frescoes from Santa Maria inter Angelos (also known as Le Palazze - see Walk III)  are where ??]   These frescoes, which are the autograph works the Maestro delle Palazze, were  detached and removed from the church in 1921 and dispersed.  They included:

• a scene of the Last Supper, with an inset of the Agony in the Garden, which is now in the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester,  Massachusetts.  

• a scene of the Nativity, a fragment of which is now in the Museum of Fine Arts , Boston, Massachusetts.