Santi Vittore e Carlo is a

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

style church on Via Balbi in central

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. Originally belonging to the

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, the church was constructed in the shape of a

Latin Cross A Latin cross or ''crux immissa'' is a type of cross in which the vertical beam sticks above the crossbeam, with the three upper arms either equally long or with the vertical topmost arm shorter than the two horizontal arms, and always with a mu ...

between 1629 and 1635 from a design by

Bartolomeo Bianco Bartolomeo Bianco (1590 – 1657) was an Italian architect of the early Baroque. Born at Como, he was the designer of several palaces in Genoa, where he moved to follow his father, also an architect. His works include the building which is now ...

. Designs by Eugenio Durazzo were incorporated in 1743 with the construction of a façade. Inside the church are a number of works of 17th- and 18th-century artists, including the wooden sculptures ''Madonna of the Carmine'' (

Alessandro Algardi Alessandro Algardi (July 31, 1598 – June 10, 1654) was an Italian high-Baroque sculptor active almost exclusively in Rome, where for the latter decades of his life, he was, along with Francesco Borromini and Pietro da Cortona, one of the major ...

, 1678) and ''Angels and Saints'' ( Filippo Parodi, 1680) and paintings by Andrea Carlone (''Saint Teresa''), Lorenzo De Ferrari (''Saints Anne and Young John the Baptist, Francesco di Paola and Liborio''),

Orazio De Ferrari Orazio de Ferrari (1606–1657) was an Italian artist, active in the Baroque period, born in Voltri, a suburb of Genoa. de Ferrari was a pupil of Giovanni Andrea Ansaldo. He was a member of the family of Genoese artists, with surnames ''de Fer ...

(''Nativity'', ''Adoration of the Magi''), Giovanni Maria delle Piane (''Decapitation of Sant'Agostino'') and

Domenico Piola Domenico Piola (1627 – 8 April 1703) was a Genoese painter of the Baroque period. He was the leading artist in Genoa in the second half of the 17th century, working on ceiling frescoes for many Genoese churches and palaces and canvas paintin ...

(''Saint John of the Cross''). The main altar is the remnant of a destroyed church of San Domenico.

Domenico Parodi Domenico Parodi (1672 – 19 December 1742, in Genoa) was an Italian painter, as well as a sculptor and architect, of the late-Baroque. He was the son of the famous Genoese sculptor Filippo Parodi and the older brother of the Baroque painter Gi ...

painted the figure of "Virtue", but many of the decorations were overseen by Maurice Dufour in the last decade of the 19th century, 1890–1898.Santi Vittore e Carlo Church
(Article in Italian). Retrieved August 4, 2012.

Gallery

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References

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