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The Oratory of San Rocco (Oratory of St Roch) is a Renaissance style, Roman Catholic church located in the city center of Padua, region of Veneto, Italy. It arises adjacent to the church of
The oratory arose at the site used as a church cemetery, but granted to confraternity of San Rocco. In 1525, construction began and was not completed until 1542. The lower hall of the oratory is richly frescoed with scenes of the life of St Roch. The frescoes were completed between 1536 and 1545 by the painters Comune of Padua
entry on church.
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
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, and is notable for its collection of frescoes.
History
The oratory arose at the site used as a church cemetery, but granted to confraternity of San Rocco. In 1525, construction began and was not completed until 1542. The lower hall of the oratory is richly frescoed with scenes of the life of St Roch. The frescoes were completed between 1536 and 1545 by the painters Domenico Campagnola
Domenico Campagnola (c. 1500–1564) was an Italian painter and printmaker in engraving and woodcut of the Venetian Renaissance, but whose most influential works were his drawings of landscapes.
Life and work
Born probably in Venice, he ...
, Girolamo Tessari, Gualtiero Padovano, and Stefano Dall'Arzere
Stefano Dall' Arzere or Stefano Dell'Arzere was an Italian painter of the second half of the 16th century.
According to Ridolfi and others, Dall' Arzere was a native of Padua. He painted numerous altar-pieces for the churches and convents of th ...
. Three of these artists also frescoed the oratory known as the ''Scuola del Carmine'' at the church of the Carmine
Carmine ()also called cochineal (when it is extracted from the cochineal insect), cochineal extract, crimson lake, or carmine lake is a pigment of a bright-red color obtained from the aluminium complex derived from carminic acid. Specific code n ...
in town. The main altar is made with polychrome marble, and the altarpiece on display is a ''Madonna with Saints'' (1697) by Alessandro Maganza. The oratory is now owned by the city, and used for exhibits. Restorations have been pursued in mid-1920s and in 1980s.entry on church.
References
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