The Church and the former Convent of the Barmen Carmelites

"The building complex is located at the south-western end of the square, just inside the ancient walled fence, with a running side along the Via dei Maceri and the western side facing the green shingle already attendant to the same convent, now public park at the feet of the Rock.
Originally the Church belonged to the community of the Servants of Mary, founded in 1389, whose Apostolic Chamber granted part of the nearby Rocca. Suppressed in 1653 by Innocent X, the convent reborn in new life twenty years later (1673), entrusted to the Barefoot Carmelites. Founder was Father Mauro of St. Joseph, noble urbined, in the century Antaldo Antaldi. On this occasion, the church and the convent were rebuilt, according to Dolci (1775), by the architect Friar Giovanni, a religious of the same order to the century Gian Battista Bartoli, intervened in Urbino also in the building of the sculpture palace. The Church, dedicated to the Virgin Annunziata, was consecrated only in 1757 by Archbishop Guglielmi. After the suppression of 1864, the church was restored and reopened to worship only in 1936. As far as the monastery premises from 1888 became the seat of the Reformation, the Correctional House, and finally the Rehabilitation House for Minors; the vast terrain towards the Rocca, already a garden of the religious community, became a thriving aggregate farm colony to the last of those institutes. Since 1967, the institute has hosted the Academy of Fine Arts. "

From Urbino, Bricks and Stones, Franco Mazzini, Editions Argalia, Urbino, 1982.