Telgate - chiesa di San Giovanni Battista

San Giovanni Battista is a

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-style,

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parish church located in the town of

Telgate Telgate (Bergamasque: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Bergamo in the Italian region of Lombardy, located about northeast of Milan and about southeast of Bergamo. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 4,598 and an are ...

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, region of

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, Italy.

History

Documents recall a church at the site able to provide baptisms dating as far back as 830. In 1575, this so-called ''arcipresbiterale di Telgate'' was a collegiate church. The present church dates to a reconstruction in designed by Giovanni Battista Caniana. The belltower was erected along the earlier church. The baroque decoration included the cupola frescoes. To make space for a larger church, the older temple and the adjacent oratory of the Disciplini Bianchi (flagellant confraternity) was destroyed. The venerated processional crucifix of the order is housed in the first chapel on the right. The church houses works by

Giovanni Paolo Cavagna Giovanni Paolo Cavagna (c. 1550 – May 20, 1627) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period, active mainly in Bergamo and Brescia. Biography He was born in Borgo di San Leonardo in Bergamo. He is said to have trained in Venice with ...

and del Paglia. The choir was designed by Fantoni.Informazione ed Accoglienza Turistica del territorio di Bassa Bergamasca Orientale
Tourism website sponsored by province of Bergamo.

References

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