Santa Maria della Carità is a Baroque-style,

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church located on Via Corridoni #33 in

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, region of Lombardy, Italy.

History

A church at the site is documented from the year 984. The church was affiliated with the jewelers of the city. In 1613 it underwent reconstruction, and achieved its present shape in 1752.Cantù, cit., pag. 404 Added to the facades of the church and surrounding buildings, which face a small piazza next to the street, are numerous inscriptions from a cemetery once found at the site. The interior includes baroque decoration, and includes eleven paintings by

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who was baptized here in 1690.

Interior artworks

* ''Theological Virtues'', nave ceiling canvases by

* ''Jesus among the Doctors'' and ''Jesus scatters the merchants from the Temple'',

Francesco Maria Raineri Francesco Maria Raineri (2 February 1676 – 28 February 1758) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque, mainly active in Mantua. Biography Also called ''Lo Schivenoglia'' after the town, just outside the city of Mantua, of his birth. He ...

* ''St Michael Archangel and Saints Cosma and Damiano'', main altarpiece by Giovanni Francesco Caroto * ''Madonna and Child and Saints'' by

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A guide from 1866 mentions at least two paintings by Giuseppe Razzetti.Guida di Mantova offerta al cittadino e al forestiero
Editor Luigi Segna, Mantua, 1866, page 80.

References

Bibliography

Cesare Cantù Cesare Cantù (; December 5, 1804 – March 11, 1895) was an Italian historian. Biography Cantù was born December 5, 1804 at Brivio, in Lombardy. He studied in Milan, at the College of St. Alexander Barnabite, and began his career as a teacher. ...

Grande illustrazione del Lombardo-Veneto, ossia, Storia delle città, dei borghi, comuni, castelli ecc. fino ai tempi moderni
Milan 1859
Mantua tourism office
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