Church of the Agonizzanti in Carini
The Church of the Agonizzanti di Carini is a religious building in Rococo style .
It was built in 1643. In the Church there is a tribune which was accessed from Palazzo Marchisi, one of the main sixteenth-century vassal houses, which suggests that the church was built by the noble family.
The façade was rebuilt in the early 1900s, according to a “flowery” Gothic style. You enter the church through two small doors and, passing through a rectangular vestibule, you find yourself in the room, equally rectangular, with a choir and dome.
The interior of the church is enriched with gilded stuccoes, in line with the late style baroque. In the two side walls there is a cornice on which 4 eagles are placed, surmounted by cherubs. Above, we find three frescoes on each side depicting: the Visitation, the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, the Assumption; the Nativity of the Virgin, the Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple and the Immaculate Conception. The two walls are sprinkled with cherubs, festoons of flowers and bunches of fruit. In the central nave, inside small stucco "theaters", the scenes of the Death of St. Joseph and the Madonna are represented. The iconographic cycle ends with the Apotheosis of the Virgin painted in the vault, surrounded by a series of frescoes arranged in moons. The frescoes are attributed to Filippo Tancredi and Filippo Randazzo from Palermo who completed the work.
