San Filippo Neri is a late

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-style Roman Catholic church located on Corso Umberto in central Lodi, region of

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, Italy.

History

The church, dedicated to St

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, was designed by the brothers Pietro Giacomo, Michele, and Domenico Sartorio and built during 1740-1745. The Sartori also completed some of the statuary. The interior is extravagantly decorated, with frescoed surfaces and polychrome altars. The nave ceiling and walls were frescoed (1756) by

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and his studio. The scenes depict the ''Glory of St Phillip'', a ''Holy Trinity'', and the ''Crucifixion'' at the apse. The cupola is frescoed with the ''Assumption of the Virgin'' and the spandrels with the ''Evangelists''. The wooden choir above the entrance was painted by

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. The organ (1779) was built by the Serassi brothers of Bergamo. Other works are by

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and

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.Guide to Italy
entry on church. The

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facade, designed by

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, is narrow but adventurously scenographic: it rises at the end of a street, convex, with a bust of St Phillip inside an oval niche above the portal, and an ''Immaculate Conception'' in an oval supported by scrolls above the upper central window. Two stories of echoing pilasters with corinthian capitals at the sides. The tympanum is interrupted and sports a roofline of playful cherubim and angels, along with flaming vases. The decorative entrance door is preceded by a balustrade and flanking staircases. The layout is that of a Greek Cross.

Civic Museum and Biblioteca Communale Laudense

Alongside is the former convent, now converted in the Civic Museum and

Biblioteca Laudense The Biblioteca Laudense is the main public library (Biblioteca Comunale) located on Via Solferino #72, in the town of Lodi, in the region of Lombardy, Italy. The library is in the Palazzo San Filippo, once housing the convent and chapel of the Orat ...

, built by the Fillipini, and open to the public in 1792.

References

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