The Oratory of Santa Maria delle Grazie (''Holy Mary of the Graces''), sometimes called a church, is a

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

religious edifice in central Parma. Construction of the Oratory began in 1617, under the designs of the local architect Gian Battista Magnani. In 1644, the architect Girolamo Rinaldi installed the peculiar octagonal lantern. The interior contains a number of Baroque paintings, including works (1715) by

Sebastiano Galeotti Sebastiano Galeotti (1656–1746) was a peripatetic Italian painter of the late- Baroque period, active in Florence, Genoa, Parma, Piacenza, Codogno, Lodi, Cremona, Milan, Vicenza, Bergamo, and Turin. Born in Florence, he was a pupil of the p ...

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