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Santi Pietro E Paolo
Santi Pietro e Paolo may refer to the following churches in Italy: * Santi Pietro e Paolo, Acireale * Santi Pietro e Paolo, Arese * Santi Pietro e Paolo, Brebbia * Santi Pietro e Paolo, Buonconvento * Santi Pietro e Paolo, Castelnuovo di Garfagnana * Santi Pietro e Paolo, Castignano * Santi Pietro e Paolo, Mineo San Pietro, or Santi Pietro e Paolo, is a Roman Catholic parish church building in the town of Mineo Mineo ( scn, Minìu, Greek: ''Menaion'' and ''Μεναί'', Latin: ''Menaeum'' and ''Menaenum'') is a town and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan ... * Santi Pietro e Paolo, Monastero di Vasco * Santi Pietro e Paolo, Siena See also * * San Paolo (other) * San Pietro (other) {{disambiguation, church ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santi Pietro E Paolo, Acireale
Santi Pietro e Paolo is a Sicilian Baroque, Baroque-style, Roman Catholic collegiate basilica church located in central Acireale in the region of Sicily of Italy. It rises adjacent to the Cathedral of Acireale. History and description A local fraternity built smaller church or oratory with the same name adjacent to the cathedral in the 16th century. In the early 17th century a new church was built at this site, but damage from the 1693 Sicily earthquake, destroyed the dome of this structure and caused much damage. The pre-1693 church had been frescoed between 1674 and 1679 by the Giovanni Fulco. Reconstruction began in 1740, using designs by Pietro Paolo Vasta. Built with expensive white stone from Siracusa, work continued through the century. In 1765, the facade was completed by Paolo Guarrera. In 1790, under the direction of Francesco Di Paola Patanè the interior was refurbished, replacing the wooden roof with a stone masonry vault, stuccoed on the interior. The facade is r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santi Pietro E Paolo, Arese
Santi Pietro e Paolo ("St. Peter and Paul", in Italian, ''Chiesa parrocchiale dei Santi Apostoli Pietro e Paolo'') is located in Arese, Milan, Lombardy. It is dedicated to the Christian figures of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. It was built to replace the old parish church of Saint Peter (the first church in Arese), which had become too small for the growing community. Construction began in 1880, on the initiative of the local priest Don Enrico Mora. The new church was funded, and blessed, by Monsignor Giuseppe Negri in 1882. The construction of the church was completed in 1938, and underwent re- consecration in 1982, on the occasion of the centenary of the foundation. History From the early 17th century, significant regional population growth created issues and inconveniences for church goers attending local religious functions in the city. Many of them were forced to follow the mass from outside the existing building due to the lack of space. As a consequence, the parish priest d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santi Pietro E Paolo, Brebbia
Santi Pietro e Paolo ('St. Peter and Paul', it, Chiesa dei Santi Pietro e Paolo) is a Catholic church in the town of Brebbia, in the province of Varese. The church was built in 1100 and is a national monument. It is considered one of the best preserved Romanesque buildings in the province. Location The St. Peter and Paul Church is situated in the centre of Brebbia, in the region of Lombardy. The town was the seat of a castle of the Milanese Archbishops in the medieval period. History The Church of St. Peter and Paul is one of the best preserved churches in Italy. It was built in the 12th century by Julius of Novara, who was allied with the Romanic army. They decided that they wanted to replace an already existing church with a much bigger one on the same location. The St. Peter and St. Paul Church was built under Roman influence and is characterized by a strong Romanesque style. The church features various artworks, including paintings and frescoes dedicated to Queen Mary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santi Pietro E Paolo, Buonconvento
Santi Pietro e Paolo is a Baroque-style, Roman Catholic parish church located in the center of the town of Buonconvento, region of Tuscany, Italy. History A church at the site dates to 1103, but was refurbished in the 18th century, with the brick facade completed in 1723. The belltower dates to the early 19th century. History recalls that in 24 August 1313, Henry VII of Luxembourg, Holy Roman Emperor died likely of malaria, at the age of 40 during the course of a siege of Siena. The church was severely damaged during an incursion of troops from Perugia in 1358. The church was enriched by its position in the pilgrimage route to Rome. An inventory from 1895 listed the following works: a frescoed medieval icon of the Madonna, and a ''St Catherine of Alexandria'' by a painter of the Nasini family, a ''St Dominic'' by Stefano Volpi, an Immaculate Conception by Giacomo Pacchiarotti; and a ''Virgin of the Assumption'' by Arcangelo Salimbeni. The sacristy had paintings attribu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santi Pietro E Paolo, Castelnuovo Di Garfagnana
Santi Pietro e Paolo is the Baroque architecture, Baroque-style Roman Catholic cathedral in the center of the town of Castelnuovo di Garfagnana, region of Tuscany, Italy. History The cathedral, dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul, originally was built in the 10th century but the present structure dates to the 16th century and later refurbishments, leaving only traces of the original Romanesque structure. During World War II there was serious damage to the structure. The cathedral still houses important works at art, among them a terracotta altarpiece depicting ''San Giuseppe'' attributed to a design by the school of Andrea del Verrocchio, a 15th-century painted ''Crucifix'' known as the Black Christ, a canvas depicting a ''Madonna and Saints'' by Michele di Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio, and a marble cornice from Civitali's Lucca workshop. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santi Pietro E Paolo, Castignano
Santi Pietro e Paolo is a Romanesque and Gothic Roman Catholic church located at Piazza San Pietro in the center of the town of Castignano, in the province of Ascoli Piceno, region of Marche, Italy. History and description A church at the site is documented since the 11th century, but the present building was completed in the 14th-century. The rectangular brick facade with tall simple pilasters has a rose-window with 12 travertine marble columns as rays. The peaked central facade has terracotta sculptures depicting the Redeemer. The flanking bell tower, visible from afar, is a masterpiece of Romanesque architecture of the early fourteenth century. The church houses a 15th-century fresco depicting the ''Madonna and Child with St Lucia''. The church has two aisles, with trussed roof, and flanked by baroque wooden altars and a wooden choir of six stalls, attributed to the 15th-century artist Apollonius of Ripatransone. The main altarpiece depicts ''Saints Peter and Paul wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santi Pietro E Paolo, Mineo
San Pietro, or Santi Pietro e Paolo, is a Roman Catholic parish church building in the town of Mineo Mineo ( scn, Minìu, Greek: ''Menaion'' and ''Μεναί'', Latin: ''Menaeum'' and ''Menaenum'') is a town and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Catania, part of Sicily. It lies southwest of Catania, from Ragusa, from Gela, and from ..., province of Catania, Sicily. History A church was located at the site by the time of the 1512 earthquake in this region. It was further damaged by the 1693 Sicily earthquake, leading to the Baroque-style of the present church. On the flank of the church is a walled portal from the older church. The church is at a high point of town, The facade is elevated from the street by a tall plinth. The facade is convex with three elevations; each divided by heavy entablatures and cornices. The base has five pilasters with doric capitals flanking the entrance; the story above has ionic columns. The triangular tympanum above the entrance is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santi Pietro E Paolo, Monastero Di Vasco
Santi Pietro e Paolo (Saints Peter and Paul) is a Baroque-style Roman Catholic parish church located at #1, Via Malborgo, in the town of Monastero di Vasco, Province of Cuneo, region of Piedmont, Italy. History The church was built between 1764 and 1776 following designs by Benedetto Alfieri. The interior was decorated in 1870 by Francesco Toscano. It has several altars of polychrome marble, including one from the now-ruined Benedictine , image = Medalla San Benito.PNG , caption = Design on the obverse side of the Saint Benedict Medal , abbreviation = OSB , formation = , motto = (English: 'Pray and Work') , foun ... Monastery, which gave the town its name. It contains a 17th-century altarpiece by an unknown artist, ''Virgin, Child, and Saints Peter and Paul'', and a painting of the ''Annunciation'' on canvas by the brothers Toscano. References {{coord missing, Italy Pietro e Paolo Baroque architecture in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santi Pietro E Paolo, Siena
The church of Santi Pietro e Paolo is a Baroque style, Roman Catholic church, located on Via San Marco in the contrada of Chiocciola, in the city of Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy. History It originally was annexed to a monastery, that moved to this site in 1361, after the plague. The original church of the monastery dedicated to San Paolo proved too small, and by the 17th-century a new church was planned. This church was begun in 1622 on designs of Flaminio del Turco; the brick façade was completed in 1678, work of Niccolò Franchini. The cupola, supported with an octagonal tambor, was completed in 1645, while the lantern was reconstructed in a Neoclassical style in 1818 by Agostino Fantastici after the earthquake of 1798 had toppled the previous lantern. When the monastery was suppressed under Napoleonic rule, the Contrada ''della Chiocciola'' moved here the functions of the nearby Chapel della Chiocciola, which was then deconsecrated and now used as a stable for the Pal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Paolo (other)
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San Paolo (Italian for Saint Paul) may refer to: * San Paolo, a municipality in Lombardy * San Paolo, Fiastra, a church in Marche * San Paolo, Pistoia, a church in Tuscany * Intesa Sanpaolo, bank of Turin and the major bank of Italy * Stadio San Paolo, a stadium in Campania * Basilica di San Paolo fuori le Mura, a church in Rome * São Paulo, in Brazil See also * Saint Paul (other) * São Paulo (other) São Paulo (Portuguese for Saint Paul) is the capital city of the state of São Paulo in Brazil. São Paulo may also refer to: Places * São Paulo (state), one of the states of Brazil * Greater São Paulo, the São Paulo region's urban and out ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
