Volpedo
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Volpedo is a municipality in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont. The painter Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo (1868-1907) was born in this village.
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Views
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The Town Hall -
Campanile of the parish church -
The atelier where the painter Giuseppe Pelizza da Volpedo worked -
The house and the courtyard where Pelizza lived -
Copy of the painting Quarto Stato in a square where the social struggle took place -
Malaspina palace in Quarto Stato square -
Moulds of the main characters painted in Quarto Stato placed before the cemetery -
The ancient walls (XVI century) -
View of the old village -
View of Torraglio road -
Panorama of Volpedo -
Volpedo with Monte Rosa
The Pieve di San Pietro and its frescoes
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Pieve di San Pietro, the facade -
Pieve di San Pietro, the apse -
Pieve di San Pietro, view of the interior of the church -
Frescoes in the apse (XV century) -
Saint Michael, detail of tha apse frescoes, , -
King David, detail of the apse frescoes -
Unknown painter , Apostles, detail of the apse frescoes, XV century -
Madonna and Child, fresco fragment, -
Quirico da Tortona , Madonna and Child with St. James the Greater and St. Agatha, fresco on a church pillar, 1502 -
Painter signing himself as “Antonius” (?), Saints Cosmas and Diaman, fresco on a church pillar, ca 1462 -
Unknown painter, Saint Bartholomew the Apostle , fresco on a church pillar -
Unknown painter, St. James the Greater and St. Peter martyr, fresco on a church pillar, XV century
