The Church of Sant'Antonio is a late

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History

The present structure was built in 1702 using designs by Carlo Cesare Scaletta. It was built atop an earlier 1400s church, near ''San Giacomo della Penna'', using many of the original external walls. The onion-topped bell tower was also designed by Scaletta, and completed in 1728. Among the artworks inside are a canvas of the ''Martyrdom of St Catherine of Alexandria'' (1580) by

Marco Marchetti Marco Marchetti (c. 1528 – 1588) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance or Mannerist period. Born in Faenza, he is also known as ''Marco da Faenza''. He painted an ''Adoration by the shepherds'' (1567) originally in the church of th ...

. This replaces the original

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engraved wooden and golden altarpiece which was destroyed in a fire on 25 August 1989. In addition, there are paintings by

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from

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(known as “Il Gobbino dei Sinibaldi”),

Giovanni Battista Bertucci Giovanni Battista da Faenza, called Bertucci (the Monkey), who painted in the style of Perugino and Pinturicchio, flourished in the early part of the 16th century at Faenza. In the Pinacoteca of that city there are various works ascribed to him, ...

, and four “Stories of San Antonio of Padua” attributed to Pasquale Tomba.

References

Roman Catholic churches completed in 1702 18th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy Buildings and structures in the Province of Ravenna Baroque architecture in Faenza 15th-century establishments in Italy 1702 establishments in Italy {{Italy-church-stub