The Oratory of San Rocco is a small

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prayer hall or independently standing chapel, located on via Vallerozzi in

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, region of

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, Italy.

History

The oratory was initially built by the Confraternity of San Rocco in 1511. The simple two story building has been the property of the Contrada della Lupa, a ward in north Siena, since 1789. The brick façade has an oculus with a 16th-century statue of St Roch, and a travertine marble tympanum. The interior and the apse are frescoed in the 17th century. The chapel of San Rocco has a 16th-century polychrome terracotta statue of its namesake, and is decorated by frescoes on the ''Life of St Roch'' by

Crescenzio Gambarelli Crescenzio Gambarelli (active from 1591 to 1622) was an Italian painter of late-Mannerism or proto-Baroque, active mainly in Siena. Biography He worked alongside Rutilio Manetti for some projects. He frescoed the ceilings for the Oratory of San ...

and

Rutilio Manetti Rutilio di Lorenzo Manetti (c. 1571 – 22 July 1639) was an Italian painter of late-Mannerism or proto-Baroque, active mainly in Siena. Biography He was influenced and/or taught by the local artists Francesco Vanni and Ventura Salimbeni. He is k ...

. The baptismal font was designed by Giovanni Barsacchi, and is decorated with a ''she-wolf'' (Lupa) emblem (1962) by Emilio Montagnani.Contrada della Luppa
entry on the oratory.

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