San Benedetto, Bergamo

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San Benedetto is a

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-style,

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church in

Bergamo Bergamo (; lmo, Bèrghem ; from the proto- Germanic elements *''berg +*heim'', the "mountain home") is a city in the alpine Lombardy region of northern Italy, approximately northeast of Milan, and about from Switzerland, the alpine lakes Como ...

, Italy. The church was designed in 1500s by

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. The church was refurbished in 1756 - 1757. It acquired at this time a silver altarpiece for the main altar; this was melted down by the Napoleonic authorities during the Cisalpine Republic. The two main altarpieces depicting the ''Assumption of the Virgin'' by Giovanni Battista Moroni and ''San Stefano'' by

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were transferred to the

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in Milan. The monks still remained in the monastery, restoring the convent to life in 1827. In 1841 a new marble altar was completed by

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. The walls still retain the

-style frescoes. Further reconstructions occurred in the 20th and 21st centuries. The adjacent cloistered convent of the Benedictines, still active, has been recently restored. {{DEFAULTSORT:Benedetto Bergamo 16th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy Renaissance architecture in Lombardy Churches in Bergamo