Saint Spyridon, Saint Joseph and the purging souls

The painting, coming from the demolished Church of San Spiridone, is the work of an unknown, good early Baroque painter, perhaps one of the so-called "counter-reformers" active in the Marche in the second half of the 17th century. It is a complex canvas, of remarkable pictorial value with last Lilli's influences and ascendancies , whose composition is carried out in two moments in which the purging souls are represented at the bottom and the group of saints at the top, arranged according to a circular iconography of great tension. The painting shows Saint Spyridon in his bishop's robe and Saint Joseph with his flowery staff, who through the Virgin intercedes with the Lord in favor of purging souls in a whirl of draperies, shapes and colors made according to a visionary figurative scheme. Between the two Saints there is a young man relieving suffering by pouring water into the flames.