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Piazza Ognissanti
Ognissanti (All Saints) may refer to one of the following Italian churches: * Ognissanti, Florence, Tuscany * Ognissanti, Mantua, Lombardy * Ognissanti, Trani, Apulia * Ognissanti, Venice, Veneto Also may refer into the following buildings and structures: * Porta Ognissanti, Padua, Veneto {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ognissanti, Florence
The chiesa di San Salvatore di Ognissanti or more simply chiesa di Ognissanti (; "Church of All Saints"), is a Franciscan church located on the piazza of the same name in central Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy. Founded by the lay order of the Umiliati, the church was dedicated to all the saints and martyrs, known and unknown. It is the burial place of the famous Early Renaissance painter, Sandro Botticelli. History It was completed originally during the 1250s, but almost completely rebuilt around 1627 in Baroque-style by the architect Bartolomeo Pettirossi. Soon after, a new façade (1637) was erected using designs by Matteo Nigetti, that conserved the glazed terracotta lunette over the doorway, which while resembling the work of Della Robbia, is now attributed to Benedetto Buglioni. Ognissanti was among the first examples of Baroque architecture to penetrate this Renaissance city. Its three reversed orders of pilasters enclose niches and windows with elaborate cornices. To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ognissanti, Mantua
The Ognissanti is a Baroque style, Roman Catholic church located on Corso Vittorio Emanuele in Mantua, Lombardy, Italy. History It is reputed that Matilde of Canossa granted the Ognissanti church around 1080 to the Abbey of Polirone in San Benedetto Po. Others ascribe the donation to the Benedictines as a gift by Pope Adrian IV in 1159. The present church and façade were completed by 1755, creating a new church with stood at right angles to the original structure. The belltower and the ''chapel of the dead'' retain some of the original Romanesque architecture. In 1797, the order was suppressed by the Napoleonic occupation and the church briefly deconsecrated. The interior contains the following artworks: * ''St Benedetto and St Scolastica surrounded by Saints and Angels'' by Ippolito Andreasi in presbytery. * ''Presentation of John the Baptist'', altarpiece, by Ippolito Andreasi. * ''Madonna with Child and St Anne'', altarpiece by Giuseppe Bazzani. * ''St Mauro healing the Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ognissanti, Venice
Ognissanti (Italian: ''Chiesa di Ognissanti'') is a 16th-century Roman Catholic church located in the Dorsoduro '' sestiere'' of the Italian city of Venice. History In the 15th century, the area of the current church housed a monastery of Cistercian nuns who had moved here from Torcello, the nearby islands now largely uninhabitable. In 1472 a hospice was built with an annexed small church, which is shown in the plan of Venice made by Jacopo de' Barbari. This was replaced from 1505 by the current building, consecrated in 1586. The church and the nunnery were suppressed by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1807 and left abandoned until turned them into a convalescent facility for elderly people. Later the monastery became a hospital, active until the mid-1990s, while the church, contained in the former's perimeter, was used for religious functions for recovered people. It now forms part of the Giustinian Hospital. Description The church's façade is divided into three vertical sectors, cor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
