Church of San Giuseppe

The current name derives from the granting of the perpetual use of the church to the confraternity of San Giuseppe (1576). The austerity of the exterior contrasts with the elegance of the interior decorations. The church presents a refined stucco decoration in which frames are depicted scenes of the life of St. Joseph by Girolamo Cialdieri, while the three theological virtues are described in bas-relief. The main altar wall presents an architectural partition that is horizontally scanned on two levels. In the upper part, inside stucco-decorated windows, there are many sacred relics from Rome in 1611. At the center of the main altar is the canvas with the San Michele Arcangelo that kills Gaetano Lapis's dragon with a clear Reniana inspiration. The simulacrum of the dead Christ from the movable arms that is worshiped during the function and the procession on Good Friday is preserved in the frontal. According to some scholars, the sculpture would be of Spanish manufacture arrived in Cagli in the wake of Cesare Borgia (1502) who exposed it as a sign of peace during its entry into the city, mystifying its attempt to conquer the territories of the duchy. On the sides of the two side altars are exposed, inside niches, decorated with stucco floral motifs, the nineteenth-century wooden statues depicting Saint Joseph with Child, Saint John, the Madonna and Mary Magdalene. With the exception of the first, the other three, in the figures of the sorrowful, escort the body of the dead Christ during the Good Friday procession.