The old Church of Santa Lucia in

Massagno Massagno is a municipality in the district of Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. History An Upper Paleolithic Ax made out of serpentinite, and some cremation graves from the Iron Age are the only prehistoric traces discovered in Mas ...

canton of Ticino Ticino (), sometimes Tessin (), officially the Republic and Canton of Ticino or less formally the Canton of Ticino,, informally ''Canton Ticino'' ; lmo, Canton Tesin ; german: Kanton Tessin ; french: Canton du Tessin ; rm, Chantun dal Tessin . ...

, Switzerland, was built in the 16th century and demolished in 1931 because of the extension of the Via San Gottardo. The new parish church of Santa Lucia was built to replace it in 1931 a few hundred metres from the square of the old church.Domenico Robbiani: ''Massagno. Note storiche.'' 2nd edition. Gaggini-Bizzozero, Lugano 1970, p. 58–61
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/ref> "The year of construction is not clearly indicated... An element for tsdetermination...can be taken from the picture of the ''Adoration of the Magi''...created by Bernardino Luini (or under his direction by his pupils) around the middle of the 16th century as a fresco above the altar." The frescoes and paintings from the old church, some from the 16th century, are now in the new church, including the 16th-century fresco of the

Adoration of the Magi The Adoration of the Magi or Adoration of the Kings is the name traditionally given to the subject in the Nativity of Jesus in art in which the three Magi, represented as kings, especially in the West, having found Jesus by following a star, ...

, which was transferred to canvas, and the paintings of the ''

Annunciation The Annunciation (from Latin '), also referred to as the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Annunciation of Our Lady, or the Annunciation of the Lord, is the Christian celebration of the biblical tale of the announcement by the ange ...

'' (1636) and of

Santa Lucia Santa Lucia and similar terms may refer to: Architecture * Abbey of Santa Lucia, a medieval abbey in the comune of Rocca di Cambio, Abruzzo, central Italy * Monastero di Santa Lucia, Adrano, a former Benedictine monastery in Catania, Italy * S ...

(17th century).Simona Martinoli et al.: ''Guida d’arte della Svizzera italiana'', ed.

Society for Art History in Switzerland The Society for Art History in Switzerland (german: Gesellschaft für Schweizerische Kunstgeschichte (GSK), french: Société d'histoire de l'art en Suisse (SHAS), it, Società di storia dell' arte in Svizzera (SSAS)) is a Swiss learned society d ...

. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, pp. 291–292

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