A large fresco is on the wall behind the altar , representing the Nativity ' , but it and ' now largely cleared. Still you see on the left the face of the Madonna with the child that looks sweet sweetness. In a box and ' painted St. Francis : his face painted with great realism and liveliness' , suggests that the painter has portrayed the buyer in the Franciscan habit . On the right and ' represented a pastoral landscape of hills , trees and sheep. The set of the fresco for its features you can ' give the sec . XV. In the round , pulled from the vaults and duly restored paintings are four prophets : Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel , and bear the signature of the painter Gauteri and the year 1867. The exquisite frescoes on the vault of the presbytery recovered and ' what is the figure of King David in the attitude of divine inspiration, poetic , full of strength and human realism. Unfortunately wear tempoha deleted the harp with which chanted praising God Perhaps the same hand are the medallions of the four evangelists placed at the top ' of the side arches .
The triumphal arch centrally presents the biblical scene of the passage of the Red Sea. Do you know the name of the artist but as a whole the fresco suggests the numerous figures in motion and the richness of color, some works of the school of Beaumont. The crowd of Israelites , rejoicing in the salvation , and the Egyptian troops swept by the Red Sea is detached with its imposing figure of Moses ' , the deliverer . In the spaces by side, linked by a network Gothic , are painted two figures of Joshua ' and Caleb . In the inner band and bow ' represented the Annunciation with the two figures of the Virgin and the Angel nunziante . Mary's face expresses a superior sweet humility ' in the act of saying her ' fiat ' . The fresco is not ' dated , I ' signed, but an elderly parishioner , Degiovanni James, remembers that his grandmother loved to have done in his teens as a model for the face of the Virgin . Consulting the parish registry , we know this girl , Catherine Berard , was fourteen years old in 1847 , so ' the painting was probably executed on that date.
In the chapel to the left side of the chancel were laid in 1980, after a painstaking restoration, two beautiful wooden statues, lying in the parish for about two centuries and coming from a chapel dedicated to St. Peter, who was still in the bottom now called 'Campo San Pietro' at the fish pond on the way to Bracalla. In 1770, the bishop of Turin ordered 'that being such a ruined chapel, which became' den of thieves open and buried in the embankment, 'was restored or destroyed. It was therefore 'saving demolished but' the two statues which were brought in the parish. They were carved in full in monoblock oak or elm, representing St. Peter and St. Paul. The two figures,
almost full height and good proportions, revealing an elegant sobriety 'in draperies, attitude and composure particular care in the study of the face.
It also notes the intention of the sculptor that providing a perspective view from the bottom up gave considerable impetus to the neck for proporzionarle. St. Peter holds his left arm lowered, with harmonic curve along the body, and a book with the right keys. St. Paul also holds a book in one hand and with the other was holding a lost object, perhaps a stylus. Son sculptures of considerable imporatanza be attributed to sec. XVII. Finally, historically interesting and 'the plaque in the compartment on the side of the high altar, where are listed the twenty successive parish priests in the Church of Rossana from 1354 to the present. We do not want to close this study on rossana without remembering that at the side of the parish is going to ruin the seventeenth century by the brotherhood serlina beautiful window which overlooks a more 'modest portal and a finely carved double doors. as the restoration of this building?
