Sant'Anna or Santa Maria e Sant'Anna is a Renaissance style, Roman Catholic church in the city of Lendinara, in the province of Rovigo, region of Veneto, Italy.

History

The simple facade is made of brick with a circular

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and full-story pilasters. Construction of an oratory and a Benedictine convent for nuns began in 1433 with land donations by Anna Bollato Falconetti. During the 16th-century a convent of Benedictine nuns was adjacent and documented till 1777. In 1799 it was occupied by Russians, and briefly made into an orthodox church. In the 19th-century it was restored by Don Gaetano Baccari. The brick facade was refurbished in the 1930s. The main altarpiece depicts a ''Virgin and Child with Saints Anne, Joseph, Young John the Baptist, and Jacob''(1816) by

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. On the altar on the left is a work by an anonymous late Mannerist painter depicting the ''Calling of Matthew''. On the altar of the right, is a canvas depicting the''Madonna del Carmine appears before Saints, Kings, Doge and Souls in Purgatory'' (circa 1614) by Andrea Vicentino.Comune Lendinara
Religious itinerary.

References

15th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy 19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy Neoclassical architecture in Veneto Roman Catholic churches in Lendinara Neoclassical church buildings in Italy {{Italy-church-stub