"OPERA ISOLATA" DOSSALAR
The front has four twisted columns decorated with acanthus tufts and vine shoots, and delimiting three niches surmounted by cherubic heads. On the frame carved with spirals two volutes with angels-putti in the round, on the sides of a mixtilinear folder decorated with candlestick-holding angels, masks, flowers and dentils, concluded by a cherubic protome. The image of the Eternal benedicen is painted inside. The taste for dense and somewhat heavy decoration, accompanied by lively polychromy, and the late seventeenth-century architectural typology refer the work to a local craftsman from the end of the seventeenth century , a period in which other examples from Molise are placed. The backbone of S. Maria delle Grazie can be identified with the one erected by the homonymous Confraternity around 1682, on the occasion of the embellishment works on the church; undoubtedly earlier than the 1743 altar, as the base was resected to allow the latter to be inserted. The statues that currently occupy the niches are not the original ones to be considered lost.