San Bartolomeo degli Armeni is an Armenian Catholic church in the quarter of Castelletto in

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, northern

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. The church was founded in 1308 by a group of monks who were fleeing the Turkish invasion of southern

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. Of the original edifice, the apse, the dome and the left chapel remain; the right chapel was destroyed in 1883. The church houses the " Holy Face of Edessa", a line relic with a tempera painting of the face of Jesus, which the Genoese doge

Leonardo Montaldo Leonardo Montaldo or di Montaldo (1319 – 14 June 1384) was a statesman who became the 7th doge of the Republic of Genoa. Leonardo was born in San Martino di Paravanico, near modern-day Ceranesi in the Polcevera valley. His family was from ...

received from the

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, and which he donated to the Basilians. The church houses artworks by

Giovanni Battista Paggi Giovanni Battista Paggi (27 February 1554 – 12 March 1627) was an Italian painter, sculptor, and writer. His style spans the Late-Renaissance and early-Baroque. Life He was born in Genoa into the well-to-do family of his father Pellegrino. I ...

, Orazio de Ferrari,

Giulio Benso Giulio Benso (30 October 1592 – 1668) was a Genovese painter of the early Baroque. He is known as one of the followers of the style of Luca Cambiasi. Benso was born in Pieve di Teco. Initially under the patronage of Giovanni Carl Doria, he ...

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, Giacomo Boni,

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, Anton Maria Maragliano and others.

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